Tutorials for dummies

Hay all, im gonna get down to buisness here. I know NOTHING about skinning like you pros do, and i am a big fat new born newbie, yea i tend to mack on my self a lot because i just enjoy it, life is to short gotta lighten up and have fun. But anyway i was wondering if some one could make an easy to fallow tutorial, because i will let you know now i have a hard time fallowing hard to understand tutorials. Because of some complex words, i suffer from dyslexia and something else but i cant remember. So i was wondering if some one could post the correct programs needed, because ihave windows blinds and object desktop, i was woundering if there is something else i need...