Howdy jorrellang,
It sounds like the first item is totally doable via a theme override. Have you seen our themers guide yet? It walks you through creating one of those. Of course some PHP and CSS knowhow is involved when customizing pages and templates, but if you have that or employ someone hwo does htis sort of change is a breeze! Specifically you want to modify single-event.php.
Your second item is probably also possibly possible via a theme override, though I am not sure I grasp the specifics. Ming expounding a bit? What do you means by “focusing”? In HTML that traditionall refers to the DOM’s focus event, but I do not believe that is what you meant here.
Please let me know if you have questions. If not, mind answering mine so I can help you further? Cheers!
– Brook