Qwestion On FORUMHOME

[dieselpowered]

Ok so I created groups for each of the states and created an area on the forum home that list them. You can see them at the following:

http://www.commandertalk.com/forums/

A few things that I am wanted to do that I cannot seem to make happen. First off, how can I put them into even rows horizontally? I think this can be done using CSS, however, I am pretty much clueless when it comes to CSS.

Next, is there a way to make it so that when a new discussion is posted into one of the groups, the icon changes in that area to reflect the new discussion? For example, now it is using subforum_old.gif and if there was a new discussion in the group would change to subforum_new.gif

Lastly, instead of placing all the HTML into the FORUMHOME template, could I create a new template and call it from the FORUMHOME template? What is the command to do that?

Thanks so much in advance for the help!!