First steps..

Here is one of my favorite websites that I will definitely be using all the time during this process (and already have been). 

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/

This website is updated every day, has thousands of songs on it, and for each, it shows the lyrics, the chords, and when chord changes are supposed to occur. Not only does it show this information, if you use your mouse to role over the suggested chord letter, it shows you the hand positioning of the chord on your guitar strings. If you can't adjust your hand to fit in that specific position, or you are playing the chord on a different fret or with a capo, you can scroll through different versions of hand placement! 

I'm not sure if that made sense so I'll post a picture of what I'm attempting to describe.

I love this site because it allows me to easily find a song running through my head and study the chords and music and try and teach it to myself. It also will prove helpful in experimenting with something I have always wanted to try - mixing songs into a sort of mash-up version, therefore transposing songs into the same key. I want to work on transposing and knowing how to transpose songs without simply looking up the song in a different key.