Q: How does a NOVICE like myself get started?

1st: You have to ask your self a question:

How committed am I to starting a business as a web publisher?

If you ARE committed to this new career you will need to do whatever it takes to do the basic things that web publishers do.

That includes setting up a brand new domain on a server and creating web pages that people will actually see.

Article Underground is NOT intended for beginners BUT it does save beginners LOTS OF TIME!

The good news is that Article Underground does most all of the complicated and time consuming stuff for you so you can focus on building web pages and getting links.

If it’s important to you to learn this stuff, don’t worry - it’s actually very easy.

Get a web editing software program to build you web pages.

An application like Dreamweaver or Xsitepro is a good choice (or any a number of other HTML editors).

Just learn the software from the ground up. Spend a day or two following the excellent tutorials and documentation and you should learn all you need to know to get started.

If you have trouble learning the software then this is not the right career for you. These days the software does almost everything for you. If you can get the basics down, much like a word processor, you can publish web pages.

Of course there is more to it than that - but THAT IS HOW A NOVICE GETS STARTED!

I suggest you read my article on my blog about starting at the beginning.

http://www.mikeliebner.com/internet-marketing/the-best-place-to-start-is-at-the-beginning/