No such thing as a silly question
Photography can be quite a complex hobby for those who are looking to progress. Hopefully you will get some varied opinions here that you will be able to tweak to suit yourself.
My two pennoth is if you are starting from scratch is to initially concentrate on composition. Do a little research and you will find there are some guidelines like not having a horizon dead centre in the frame, keeping your subject off centre and the rule of thirds. Of course these 'rules' can be, and are broken, but to start with if you follow them you ought to find your pictures improve.
Use the auto or program modes at first, you can start to explore the way you can control certain aspects of your shots a bit further down the line when you reach the limits of auto and program modes.