As you said you're not a total newbie in the sense you don't know anything about bitcoin.
This is the best place to learn though, I knew nothing about bitcoin when I came here other than I was advised by a very wealthy client to invest in it for the future.
This is the best place to be though to get advice, ask any question & it's more than likely people will help where they can.
The only thing I'll advise you to do is to buy a number of bitcoin that you can afford to put in cold storage & forget about for a few years at least.
Think of them as a long term investment, it might be the best thing you ever do
Good luck any way & enjoy your time on the forum as part of the community.
Have fun mate.
Yeah he not a total newbie
i have friend he know bitcoin last month
and I introduced him to make money online from bitcoin with faucet and trading in free market sparkprofit