Hi Eileen,
playing with code needs some understanding. If you are not that skilled in it, it could take a serious effort without good results. But if you need to apply little changes to the look&feel, then struggling with code is not needed: you can use some workarounds. For example, if you just need to hide the author info, then just open the ViewEntry.ascx file with notepad, locate this:
<span class="blog_author">
<asp:label id="lblPostedBy" ResourceKey="lblPostedBy" runat="server">Written By</asp:label>
<asp:label id="lblUserID" runat="server"></asp:label>
</span>
and insert this:
<span class="blog_author" style="display:none">
<asp:label id="lblPostedBy" ResourceKey="lblPostedBy" runat="server">Written By</asp:label>
<asp:label id="lblUserID" runat="server"></asp:label>
</span>
Having some knowledge of css will help you make all the simple tasks to customize the module, other things will need code knowledge, sorry. Please let me know if you need further help in anything about customizing the module, I will gladly try to guide you through it.
Best regards,
Dario Rossa