Make Your Fingers Hard for Guitar

Your fingers hurt when you start off, do they not? Here's a short little article on how to make them nice and hard.

Steps

Practice a lot.
When you start getting the chords right, your fingers may start to hurt/sting, this is normal.
If you keep getting the chords right over and over again, your fingers will get hard, and won't be sore when you practice.
Buy a Gripmaster Hand Strengthener to help make your fingers strong and nimble. Use it while studying or watching TV and it actually makes your fingers stronger.
Don't get rid of the calluses you will get when playing guitar, you need them. Know what will get rid of your calluses so you can avoid these things.

Never press too hard on the strings—no more, no less—just enough to have a good, clean sound. Calluses will develop over time. Pressing too hard results in a bad, tense way of playing guitar, which does inhibits your speed and sound, but the greatest "danger" is tendinitis that may force you to stop playing the guitar for a period of time.
Use surgical spirit for hardening the skin on your fingertips, along with constant practice.
If you want to be a band in a few years time, it's best to learn the acoustic guitar, opposed to the electric guitar. If you learn the acoustic guitar, it'll be easier to play the electric.
Consider using a product like QuickCallus® to provide an artificial callus.
Liquid Skin® is used by cellists and works just as well for guitarists when fingers tips get tender.

Use good judgement in choosing the amount of time you practice. If your fingertips are in constant pain (even when you stop playing guitar) put down the guitar and rest for a few days.