Theme development

I am trying to create a news feed that updates as users create news content. A news summary block if you will, I am fairly new to Drupal so I am confused on where to go with it. I created a content type of "News Feed" and I want that data to show up in a block on the front page. Similar to this NEWS section http://www.templatemonster.com/demo/44575.html. So when a new NEWS entry is created it updates with the 3 newest NEWS entries in a summary form.

Thank you

I would like to have 4 blocks on the front page (no sidebars), two on top and two on the bottom, so in a table format speak, two rows with two columns each.

Is there a simple way to achieve this using the grid format in the Corporate clean theme?

I am struggling to understand the container_x and grid_x functinality :(

Any help would be greatly appreciated

I figured out how to display the SQL being used by Views, but I don't know how to make changes to the SQL.

I want more regions of the footer as there is in Bartik theme.
But how do I do it? Which template ?
Is there a toturial for zen theme for just this?

I have a taxonomy called "categories." I have added two term reference fields to user account that reference the "categories" taxonomy. One field is called "primary category" and the other is "secondary category."

First problem: I need to return a list of categories that are chosen as either a primary or secondary category. The list cannot contain duplicates.

As soon as i load my site ,slideshow hides instateneosly,applied css positioning on container and text .please check http://drupalkashmir.dev.axelerant.com/