Hey Sanrist! You should check out my shell, Cynosure (at cynosure-online.com/forums, where you can register and, after anti-bot approval, post). No one stays a newbie for long with us. Full of helpful and friendly people who remember what being new was like!
I'm Grommet, and if I am not online, you can /sea all [name] for my sackholders to get a linkpearl. (Just explain that Grommet said on Alla that it was ok.) They are Sairsha, Sturg, Faithfulopossum, Whoohoo and Shadowmonkey.