I am wondering how to customize the testimonial section. I want it to display a max length of characters then perhaps a tab that says read more to click and display the rest of the testimonial.
I also want to change the single post blog page image header so that it is not so wide. I am hoping this would also help the ext appear larger as well.
Achieving the testimonial behaviour that you are looking for would require extensive custom coding in the core files and I cannot really assist you with it in the free support scope.
I’m not really sure I understand what you want to achieve with the blog posts header image, so maybe you can assist me with a couple of screenshots as visual aidance.
It seems though that you could use this CSS code to make the header to display as a box:
Works, but how do I apply this affect to every page except the homepage?
How do I push the sidebar over to the right more, to leave room for the main section of pages?
As far as landing pages I want to make three or four.
I want them to be very simple in appearance, but different than existing pages.
I want them to link back to the home page, but but be able to be reached through the homepage (like a promotions)
As for the landing pages, you should use a no sidebar page and input all of your content into it.
You can custom create it and it will eventually lead to homepage.