all in all is you need is to understand what you doing, have a strong focus, have a plan, have a relevant time to execute. failure is consider as pause, not a permanent failure
For making money online you have to choose a right thing that earns money until you drop that. I suggest Domain Name Reselling is a good one that will yields a handsome return.
Eventhough Wordpress is perhaps the best CMS is terms of building a website, I would suggest any newbie to start with blogger first due to the fact is does not cost any money to get a domain and build a content based website. The person can also slowly learn to use HTML and other basic requirements and its much easier to customize the template etc.