Boxer - Your PM inbox is full so I couldn't respond to your PM. Anyway, here is my response for you:
A good place to start after canned extracts is with kits put together by AustinHomeBrew.com or Midwestsupplies.com. Both places will provide you a recipe with all the necessary specialty grains (steep in water), malt extracts, real hops, yeast, and any adjuncts in that recipe. You also have the options of dry v. liquid yeast strains... They will crush the grains for you and all and provide you an instructional DVD and the recipe for the kit on paper (they even give you grainbags, etc.).
I started on these type of kits and did 3-4 of them. Then I started modifying their recipes slightly by adding additional malt, grains, or hops to their recipes. I did 3-4 batches as such and then I started to formulate my own using BeerSmith and/or books (I have amassed 5-6 homebrew recipe books in the 4 months I've been doing this).
If you have a request for a specific recipe, I can export some of my recipes from BeerSmith into word and copy/paste them, however I think the step before formulating your own should be the Steeping/Extract kits from one of the sites above. I still brew some of their kits from time to time even now...
Just FYI, most range from $24-35 depending on ingredients included, but they both have a wide range to choose from and are a great place to start to learn steeping, using whole/pellet hops, etc. that you don't experience just doing pre-hopped can kits...
Good luck!