No offence, the post is actually extremely wordy and some better structuring would be needed.
I tried my best to reduce the post contents, but will result to missing of important information for newbies. Just trying to simplify it as it could be.
Well it still wordy for me. I read the first few paragraphs with full attention and then just scanned the rest of the paragraphs and trusting that you will not put anything wrong. It will be better if you can simplify it more. I do not think at the current format and wording many people will be interested to finish the entire article.
Maybe some graphical presentation like those infography will also help.