SO CONFUSED!

Methinks I hate blogging. I just spent about an hour trying to figure out how to change the template. And I wasn't even successful. In case you are wondering, this is not how I want the blog to look. And template websites appear to be worth little more than, well, nothing. If anyone has any suggestions to help me with my blogging handicap, I would appreciate it greatly. Haha, and I just tried to post this and I got a big red alert saying "ERROR. Autosave failed." Now I have to figure this out... why again is blogging so great?