Also, I have a white space on top of my heading that reaches the top of the screen. I would like the background to fill that white space if possible.

Find this in your Appearance → Custom Design → CSS:

#page {
	background:white;
	text-align:center;
	margin:0 auto;
	padding:20px 0 10px;
	position:relative;
	width:1000px;
	border:none;
	border-top:none;
}

Change this:

padding:20px 0 10px;

To this:

padding:0 10px;

I have a border around all of my photos, and for some reason it does not connect on the right hand side. I would like to rid the boarder completely, to learn how to connect the lines to it creates a full boarder.

What's happening is that there is just a little bit of padding, margin, and border space getting added around each image and it's causing what should be 100% width to fall outside the edges.

This should work as a temporary workaround for now, but I think we can make the default for that theme work a little better and it would be ideal to get that fixed if it is indeed a bug. I will report the issue to see if our developers can review it next time they work on this theme.

In the mean time, here is the workaround to make the borders show up in your blog:

#primary .entry-content img {
	max-width: 98%;
}

Or to get rid of the border completely, add this instead:

#primary .entry-content img {
	border: none;
}

I think no border looks nicer myself.

I have the custom design feature but am unsure on how to change a few things. I have a border around all of my photos, and for some reason it does not connect on the right hand side. I would like to rid the boarder completely, to learn how to connect the lines to it creates a full boarder.

Also, I have a white space on top of my heading that reaches the top of the screen. I would like the background to fill that white space if possible.

If you could help me with these few things - I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!