Hello all i am Robert from NY and i am a complete beginner to Inkscape, and when I first started working through this, I found it a bit daunting. I continued, however, to work through it, and with in no time at all, I was really starting to get to know more and more about Inkscape, and it`s capabilities.
glad to join this forum, as it`s people like you that help the less-skilled among us to move on with these things !