[Fishfirst]

Basically I'd get some good books, but I'd suggest reading them while you do a fishless cycle on your tank. 4 weeks of it just sitting there is a great way to get some reading done while you have the down time. I'd first read about sand depth, you decide whether to go shallow sand bed or deep sand bed, then get some sand, aragonite is best, 50lbs for a shallow sand bed, 75-100lbs for a deep sand bed. I'd buy 3-4 maxi jets or some other high quality powerheads, a refracto-meter if you have the money or a hydrometer, and some instant ocean salt. Put one powerhead in the bucket/rubbermaid trash can that you are mixing the salt in, add the salt, then the water, turn on the power head and get it mixing. Wait 24 hours and test it with your refracto-meter/hydrometer, refer to your book on the correct refractometer reading for salinity. Specific gravity (the thing you test with a hydrometer that is sorta like salinity) should be around 1.023-1.025. Adjust it now by adding water if its too high, or salt if its too low.
Fill the tank with this saltwater by using a rock or shallow dish to pour it in (this will prevent a lot of sand mixing into the water column
Put the rest of the powerheads in the tank and turn them on (powerheads are key to keeping algae undercontrol via current)
Then add about two or three raw shrimp and let it cycle
Then you can look for good skimmers, I recommend the aqua c remora
the skimmer can go on after the cycle is done
in those 4 weeks, collect as much money as you can so you can buy some liverock a bit of livesand and a fish or two.