The guides that are stickied are updated with every patch (at leats gone through for relevence) so feel free to use em, esp that mission guide.
One thing that I've chaned my starting advice on is learning skills. While training them early is very effecient (something eve players are more sensitive to that any other mmog player, bar-none) they can be very tedious for a new player.
I reccomed going for ship training first, possibly right up to bs skills, only then should u delve deeper into the learning skills timesink.
That said, having all the skilld trained up to one or two isn't that painless.
If you're still doing lvl1's, I'd reccomend getting a destroyer, they're made for lvl 1s. Possibly ur tank isn't up to snuff, adk in tribalwar for help.