Suggestions for Tutorials – Installing and Customizing

Hello,

I have been searching for some tutorials about how to properly install WP and how to customize it. There seems to be a lot of information out there, but most of it seems to assume that you already know a lot about WP.

I subscribed to lynda.com and watched some videos but they jumped past, what I thought, was critical information.

I’ve been reading and reading and have found no stand out source for step by step information.

Can someone please suggest a good starting place for a beginner?

I’m not totally ignorant, just mostly… I have built a few sites in HTML / CSS using a WYSIWYG and I had my personal site built with WP and am able to easily add content and find my way around.

I would just like to be able to build a site from scratch the way I like it.

Thanks