As the title says. I'm pretty much a complete novice when it comes to this. Basically, I'm just looking to buy an audio interface and a midi controller keyboard for home recording. It's only for recording home demos and that sort of thing. Purely a hobby thing. I don't really have the skills or the money to be investing in anything too high tech.
Also, i probably should mention that I'm not really looking to record vocals, drums, acoustic guitars or anything like that just yet.
I have been using beatcraft for creating drum loops and another program called mixcraft for recording basic demo tracks. How I've been doing it up until now is just by plugging my guitar straight into the mic input on my laptop. It sounds pretty awful but I've been finding it pretty useful for getting ideas down quickly.
Anyways, I've got about about €250 to play around with and I'm thinking of buying the following 2 products:

http://www.thomann.de/ie/line6_pod_studio_ux1.htm

http://www.thomann.de/ie/maudio_oxygen_49.htm

Has anyone any experience using them? Are they worth buying? Are there alternatives I should be considering?
Is there way more stuff to buy before i get this stuff?