My name is Nuno and I'm a student of Journalism in University of Coimbra. I'm here, today, representing my technical team to ask you from some help. We want to make a blog/site called Deontology Observatory.
We don't have any knowledge about html or css code and we are giving our first steps in the wordpress world. So, we have a lot of doubts and we'll be very thankful if you can help us.

First: At Home, what are the images inside a rectangle?

Second: How do we do to put our images, photos and texts like in the demo (http://imbalance2demo.wordpress.com/)? Is there any way to divide the page in two or three columns?

Third: At Home, is it possible to leave some fixed posts and vary others?

Fourth: How do we do to the images + text, inside any category, be just as like at the home page, lightning that red thing around them?

Best Regards.