well I don't play electric (not yet anyway... still looking for that Tele
) but I do play acoustic with effects. How I started was with a multi effects pedal so I could decide what I liked. Then from there you can upgrade to make a complete pedal board. There are several decent multi effects pedals out there in the 100$ range (zoom, digitech, some used Boss pedal...etc.) they might not be all too fancy but they can be a good place to start.
Hope this helps