There is more than 1 way to fund an exchange and someone who took a different and better path will surely follow this up. If you want to buy crypto-currency but feel funding an exchange you just learned about 3 days ago(with a service you never heard of) seems a little risky, you’re not alone. A few months back I decided the heck with it and bought a couple BTC with money I could afford to lose.
Today, my fav method is coinbase - > btc-e. This is not the cheapest method, it’s just my personal choice as I live in the USA and prefer hooking my bank account up to US based companies. It’s simple,
Need: bank account, coinbase.com account, btc-e.com account.
1. set up a http://coinbase.com account, connect your bank account(wait a few days)
2. buy bitcoin on a red candle ;) ( http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/ )
3. transfer that bitcoin to your wallet on http://btc-e.com (wait for the confirms)
4. buy FTC on a red candle(or a green candle, really any candle will do)
Another method I’ve used http://dwolla.com -> http://campbx.com -> Btc-e, while Coinbase went through “growing pains”.