First off I would like to thank you for making these walkthroughs, they are incredibly helpful. On your homepage I noticed you have an image that stretches along the entire page(as if taking up all grids), and then you have 2 images that both take up 2 grids with a sidebar as a third, and then you have images taking up one grid each with no sidebar. How do you customize each of these posts as you make them? Furthermore Your image at the top does not contain the author, date, or permalink, how do I go about removing those as well? Thanks so much.
You can select to display the archive in different layouts under Appearance > Theme Options > Layout. There is no way to remove the post meta but manually. Please see this post.