Well Bill and I both bought the game and I made my own simple skin in like 10 to 20 minutes.
My person seems to have a perma-smile.
Anyways, there didn't seem to be too much construction going on there and I don't know what to do in order to help.
My name on there is an obvious thing, however Bill's is Nether_Dragon.
And yes, although we are so called 'Newbs', we know the basics of playing minecraft.
It troubled me to see a blatant lack of meats on the server. I searched all over haha.
I also attempted to do some hoeing and failed. I don't know if it was just my version was being weird, or that the server was being weird, but I honestly couldn't till any soil whatsoever.
Then again my screen froze and I had problems connecting to the server again...so I have no dang clue.