I am new to C5 and I love it but it's not easy to get your head around it in the beginning especially if you don't have any programming skills. There are a lot of tutorials some basic and some too advanced and get's you nowhere, my advice is this. Stick to the basics, forget about trying to get your head around the programming side, install the free elemental template populated with content and replicate that into your own design and the most important advice I give to you is this; website building is about adding a page on a page. It took me two weeks to figure that out, yes I know it sounds dumb but trying to create a category page thinking that using the pagelist will get me the results I saw in the portfolio got me nowhere. I couldn't replicate it using their methods but instead I used the idea I mentioned above and it worked.

Keep your site simple and clean and you won't be spending months on end trying to figure out how it will all come together.

I hope this helps many newbies out there struggling with C5.