Here is a guide from Aragone over on wowvault.ign.com detailing how to progress through the ranks of the Honor system in WoW. If you are into the honor system or thinking of starting PvP you should check this out.

How To Go From Rank 0 - 14
By Aragone

Ok, I have been doing a lot of research in my spare time and have crunched a few numbers and I think I finally made sense of the honor calculation system Blizzard has in place. I hope this thread will shed a little light on exactly how leveling and the honor system works. Please feel free to add things to this post about the honor calculations because there are still a few areas that are hazy to me and that I don't have difinitive answers to.

You can read the whole guide here