major Help!

Um im a noob at vb and i wanted to kno how to make the forums look ANYthing liek this one with not just d/l a style (i want ta do it my self)

first of all how do you get the boards to be all nice and narrow.. and then have a bg image behind it..

then how to you make postbit like this one..

then um... how do you make the forums catagorys have a nice top (image) all nice an beveled sorta ...

anyhelp would do at all.