Billy,
What you are attempting to do is very straight foward. I will try to make it sound as simple as possible. Each light fixture you buy whether it screws on a box (mine - picture below) or use a pig tail (just a socket and the wires) will have two wires. A white one, and a black one. The black wires are your ciruit and the white you load.
When you purchase a given length of cord (mine is 14/3) the numbers will mean this in my example (14/3) 14 is the gauge of the cord and three means there are three wires within the cord. Each wire has a purpose, white is the load wire, black is the return or the circuit and green (usually green), is the ground.
To connect your lights (however many you want could be 2, or 10). In order to do this you connect each lights circuit wire to your cords return wire. (black to black usually NOT always) You then connect all of your lights charge or load wires (white) to the cords load wire (white), all can be connected with one wire nut. When connecting circuit wires I connect each to the cord's circuit wire with individual wire nuts, just tie the lights circuit to the cord wherever you can by stripping it and wire nutting it.
I am sure that sounds confusing. It really isn't, if you can understand that (I cant understand that) go to home depot and have one of the people in electrical draw up a quick diagram for you. It is so simple. Some pictures are attached of various wiring from my enclosure for my ackies.
Try this link. I am new to photobucket not sure how well it works.
http://s298.photobucket.com/albums/mm270/SpyderPB6/
goodluck,
Mike.
