Affiliate Marketing Secrets

Ladies and gents,
hello im looking to make my first ever website (no previous experience) and if im honest ive no idea what type yet but im swaying towards making money with possibly affiliate advertising (i want to make money online with my page) what im looking for is a good reliable web host that is uk based with a uk call centre if i need help.
As i have no experience im struggling a little so what im looking for is a web host i want a website that is .co.uk for e.g (pedgers.co.uk) and i read somewhere that wordpress is excellent to use build a website so ive downloaded that already, i read that i need a mysql option to install this on my domain? or something like that,
so bearing in mind im a beginner any help or tips would be great
thank you very much