good post. It"s really the basics, but for a noob, it is exactly what is needed.
in order to know exactly what your voting power still is:
go to www.steemd.com/@yourusername
It shows you a whole lot of statistics about your account, including yor voting power
(if you use someone elses username, ofcourse you can check up on him/her aswell :p )
thank u that helped me out a lot :9
Thanks for the extra link, new here so want to learn as much as possible.