Making sure you are able to perform elemental systems (common examples Si and Ge) as described in the tutorials, you may go on to prepare input for few other single elements. I am sure you will get help from the forum as mentioned by Yavar Taghipour at:
http://www.quantum-espresso.org/forum/
In addition, you can run the code using gui:
http://www-k3.ijs.si/kokalj/pwgui/ with this I also assume you are not using hpc clusters.