I have re-joined 3 years later .... have made WAY MORE PROGESS thanks to the excellent training at WA, and much more motivation than before.

Yep, Pot Pie (aka Jen) is awesome at teaching the basics. There are tons of great resources on Squidoo here.

Glad to have you here of course. If you ever need anything you just holler.

Hi! Welcome to WA!
I'm a fellow newbie of about 2-3 weeks, and I found the most helpful thing for ME was to read through posts in the forums like there was no tomorrow :-) Amazing stuff in there! And I have to say, the oft-repeated advice of "actually DO IT" was also a good one. I learned a ton just by making my first lens. Good luck!