Rift Guides is a source for basic information about Leveling, crafting and collecting, most of all, IT'S FREE!!
Information includes Defiant, Guardian, Mining, Foraging, Butchery, Apothocary, Armorsmithing, Artificing, Outfitting, Runecrafting and Weaponsmithing.
Once you have settings you are comfortable with on an existing character, you can import them to any other characters you have on the same shard as the original character.