Hi folks, brand new to October CMS. And I really mean it. I would like to dive deeper into it by building a test project. Anyone with patience, a bit of spare time and good willing that can assist me by skype / whatsapp ? I lack basic understanding of some major topics, briefly I don't know where and how to start. Thank you very much.

I can't assist, but you should start by reading the docs:

• https://octobercms.com/docs/cms/themes
• https://octobercms.com/docs/markup/templating
• https://octobercms.com/docs/api

and watching the tutorials:

• https://octobercms.com/support/articles/tutorials
• https://octobercms.com/support/topic/screencast

The Watch & Learn series is particularly interesting for a base to a test project

The October Tricks website is also very useful:

https://octobertricks.com/

And browsing OctoberCMS/Plugins source code is THE best way to learn in my opinion.

Thank you very very much, I will check these thoroughly.