Customizing a widget

Hello,

I would need some help with the following topics:

1. customizing the layout of the “Your next review awaits” widget. I have attached a layout that i want but don’t really know where to start. Can you guys give me some pointers / tutorials?

2. I want to be able to set the length of the Recent Reviews widgets. At the moment it is showing only 1-2 lines …i want 7. Where can i set the length of the excerpt?

3. In the Recent Reviews widget I want to be able to show the date when the review was placed.

4. I know there is a compliments plugin but I wasn’t able to make it work. I trust many of your customers have tried it…can you provide some guidance?

5. Is there a pagination function for the recent reviews widget and also for the reviews displayed on the listing’s page? If so how can i enable it?

6. I have joined the translation project and have downloaded the .po file. I’m not quite sure how can I enable the translation for my language.

7. When adding GD>Popular post view widget to the GD Home right section the layout is quite bad…Attached a screenshot. I would need picture on the left as is, title as is then below title #reviews / bookmark link. Below both the description of 100 characters let’s say…

Thanks for your help!
Kira