Kindly post separate ticket for separate issue. Your concern in the point no 2 is related to issue mentioned in the ticket title, so , if you want to center the message or close to center than add the following css rule in the custom css box
To achieve the above layout you have to increase width of the content wrapper which is blog-post-title-wrapper , so by increasing the wrapper width to 100% the content on homepage will be placed evenly from both left and right. For doing this use the following css rule
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width: 80%;
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width: 100%;