Why do you need newbie friendly sites? There's a perfectly good newbie oriented help system in the major distributions which is often presented or easy to reach at first boot.

I'm using openSUSE where every YAST window has a context sensitive help (in the KDE interface you can see it directly in the window) to help you configure your system.

It's not like the information is not there, but i find out that most people just don't want to read, but instead ask in forums...