Best place for you to ask questions is tomsnewbiebooster.com, no matter what the question is you'll never be made fun of or insulted (unlike some other boards).
Any webmaster that offers help by ICQ or email... take them up on it 'cause you never know what you will learn.
Pick a niche to promote. It'll have to be something that doesn't make you squirm (foot fetish makes me squirm), but at the same time, something that you won't spend all day jerking off to (for me, this is pornstars). If your niche is pornstars, then you'll need to find 3 different sponsors with good pornstar sites. Take the free tours on those paysites and ask yourself if you'd signup. If there is annoying shit on the paysite such as popups or email boxes, then don't promote them.
Don't try and start a paysite, but if you want to sample what it's like to run a membership site (sort of) then check out adultcheck.com.
Don't try to make thumbnail galleries on paid hosting. The best thing is to try and make free sites, check out
www.link-o-rama.com for a defenition of a free site.
AVS sites are the easiest money, and also the most solid source of income. You'll burn minimal bandwidth with avs sites. Go to
www.theadultwebmaster.com and look for their archived newbie articles, there are some good guides on avs sites. Also see avsalert.com. An avs site done properly, fed with link list traffic from the avs and given time can make more money than an entire month's worth of galleries.
Links
http://www.weboverdrive.com/startout.html http://trix.sexswap.com/ http://www.topniche.com/newbie-boost...-sponsors.html http://www.pornresource.com/ http://www.theadultwebmaster.com/ http://www.rookieclass.com/