Hit me on MSN James if you need help
I would like to think im pretty good on guitar and I would always recommend people to learn themselves, that way they can devleop their on style instead of copying some else. I learned on acoustic with 56 gauge strings, it hurt like fuck to begin with but after a while i got used to it, it made playing the electric guitar very easy. Start of learning the basic chords, A, Am, C, D, Dm, E, Em, G
Once you can fret them properly work on changing chords, this will take you weeks of practice mind, but its very worth it. If you want to become good i'd recommend practising at least 2 hours a day, especially as you start. A good idea to develop calluses on your fingers is to use alcohol, it helps strengthen them and avoid doing the washing up as it will destroy them.
Just get i touch if you need any heklp.