What's wrong with Ovation??
Anyway, this is from a pretty limited amount of experience but it may be useful to you.
My wife and I just recently (~6 months ago) purchase a couple of guitars with intent of learning. Here is what we have found.
I wouldn't buy anything online that you have not had a chance to hold in your hands. Feel and comfort are very important - more so than style and coolness factor.
Even if you don't know any chords, wrap your hand around the neck and see how it feels to you. Wider necks are sometimes easier for fat fingered folks to get the right strings mashed without buzzing the neighboring strings.
Start with an acoustic. If you want to be the next electric god, move to electric later. But start with acoustic.
If you must have an electric, throw the strings in the garbage and replace them with a new set of good medium weight strings. Super Slinkys are for sissys. Thin strings break easier, and the medium strings have a much better sound.
With any guitar, get a good hard case. Really. You'll be pissed that you didn't... right after the dog knocks it off the display stand and onto the brick hearth.
If at all possible, take a player with you to check out your prospective purchase. Some guitars have problems that a player would notice, and that a non-player would not. These problems will impair your learning, and you won't even know it. And I don't just mean cheap guitars... some major brands still manage to have that occasional axe that will never sound quite "right". A lemon, so to speak.
My wife bought a Samick D-5. Those in the know, know that Samick has been around a long time. They are the worlds single largest guitar manufacturer, and many a Fender and Gibson were actually made under contract by Samick.
The D-5 has a solid top, laminate sides & back. It has Grover tuners. We bought it new at a Labor Day sale in our local music shop, and paid about $220 with taxes.
YMMV. Guitar peeps may disagree with some of what I said, but these statements are based on my personal experience and advice I received during the process.