As a newbie on this Bitcointalk forum, I wish to be guided by the high-rank members of this Bitcointalk forum on the type of posts I am to make that will not go against the Bitcointalk forum rules.
I guess you have already receive more than enough advice that should get you started but let me add some that I feel will also be useful to you to some extent.
As a newbie I'm sure you'll come accross so manny threads that you have no clue of waht discussion is going on there, my advice is that you take it up to yourself to do some research and learn more on that topic, you might nit get the chance to add to the thred but still just learn it because there is a 80% chance that such type of tthread will be created again in the future and by that you'll something to contribute to the topic, I learnt this from some reputable members in my local board. And that reminds me if you're yet to locate you local board do well to locate it and I'm sure they'll be more than happy to have you in their midst.
Btw, Welcome to bitcointalk.