Training videos for beginners (English)
This is a series of videos from Seo eCom
Volume 1 - Getting Started
Chapter 1: Domain Names
Chapter 2: Available Domain Names
Chapter 3: Hosting Options
Chapter 4: Domain Registration
Chapter 5: Installation pre-requisites
Volume 2 - Drupal Installation
Section 1. Installation
Section 2: Initial Setup
Section 3: Batch Scheduled Job
Section 4: Drupal Modules
Section 5: Drupal Themes
Section 6: Drupal Blocks
Section 7: Initial Security
Section 8: Clean URL
Volume 3 - Basic Drupal CMS
Section 1. First Content
Section 2: Content Types
Section 3: Blog with YouTube
Section 4: Image Content
Section 5: Web Feeds - Syndicated Content
Section 6: Menu
Section 7: Search Friendly Content
Section 8: Secondary Menu
Section 9: Taxonomy
Section 10: Web Forms
Section 11: Surveys
Section 12: Polls
Section 13: Sitemaps
Section 14: Google Analytics
Section 15: Syndicating Your Content
Volume IV : Advanced CMS
Section 1. Installing Themes
Section 2: Adding other Modules
Section 3: e-Commerce Store
Section 4: Shipping Module
Section 5: Paypal payments with IPN
Section 6: Other payment gateways
Section 7: Product Variations
Section 8: Go Shopping
Section 9: Content Versioning
Section 10: Workflow
cron jobs
there is a nice module out there which is called "poormanscron". This should solve all your cron problems with drupal and you don't need a third party company as in this tutorial.