Please help new vbulletin member with header questions

[Dollarsign]

Hello everyone!

I am relatively new to php and css, but I can understand some things. I am desperately looking for some advice with the following issues, I just purchased my vbulletin forum two days ago and want to launch it asap.

I am using vbulletin 3.8.2

Making a custom header for vBulletin forum:

How can I make a custom header with a google adsense advertisement at the top, site logo underneath and 3 links underneath the logo?

You can see exactly what I want to make at this website:

hype beast.com/forum/

I just don't know where to start, I could design what I want in dreamweaver but I don't think it's a simple case of copying the html out into the header.php template in vbulletin.

Increase size of "Last Post" area on vbulletin front page table.

I was wondering, how can I increase the size of the "Last Post" area on the front page of my vbulletin forum? It seems to be only 20/30px wide at the moment and the information about the last post and who created that last post is squashing up inside the box.

Thanks a lot for your help, it is greatly appreciated!!