Many Questions: Sidebar in articles, Gallery, Navigation?

Questions concerning:
– Sidebar viewed in articles
– Navigation in the header (like at binary bonsai)
– Layoutthingie from worldpress.org
– Picture Gallery

Hi people,

thanks for providing such a splendid software! After finding, installing and telleing my friends about it I come up with some questions I’m not able to find answers for. Please apologize, but for me as germanspeaker it’s hard to find the right thread in forums – i hope you can provide some links ??

Problem is, I can hardly code, only basic html, no php – I’d be wery thankful if you could provide me very easy instructions.
My questions are the following:

1. When I open an article and the browser goes to the site, the sidebar is not there anymore – Can I insert it so it’s allways shown?

2. I’d like to make a simple navigation in addition to the sidebar like at binary bonsai -> Where do i put in the code? and: How can I make them animated like at b b. ?? ?

3. On worldpress.org you have a wery nice background – it’s still and has this shadow? What’s the trick about that?

4. Picture Gallery: I need a picture gallery, that is simple to set up and easy in handling, but it must have descriptions for pics and thumbnails that open the original in new Window.
Btw: When I insert a picture in a WP article, it comes with no thumb/link aswell – can I change this?

1000 Thanks in advance,
Martin