Sorry guys, I've been really busy the past couple days so I haven't been able to post. I understand what you are saying about not a whole lot of new ideas coming from a beginner tutorial, and I understand that we have articles already. I just thought it would be a cool collaborative beginner tutorial. A couple people have said it's not worth while since there are countless sites out there with beginner tutorials. Why not try to make this place a one stop shop though for beginners to advanced?

It sounds like the idea may have died already. Oh well, it was worth a shot. Maybe one day when I'm feeling more confident I'll write up a tutorial article and throw it up. If nothing else maybe this thread got a couple people thinking about some things that they would be able to write a new article on. :)