How to invest in gold?????

Well i am turning 20 over these weekend and i am looking forward to invest in stock market and commodities and by saying commodities i mean gold and silver. I am huge fan of gold and would love to invest in gold.But actually when i did a bit of research i didn't find any ways how to invest in gold and while researching i came around a article on how to invest in gold but the content of that article was to difficult to handle for me and it hardly helped me!! ??? ??? ???

all tht content was GOLD ETC , Physical Gold and some thing!!

Please help me out???