Hi Ikkeenpind,
1) In the main theme options once you select the homepage, you can select the page to hold the blog. If that isn't happening, disable any active plugins you have running, refresh your view of the admin page and try it again.
2) Yes, on the page you have designated as the blog page there is a metabox labeled "Layout Options" on the right hand side. Use the dropdown for "Do you want to display a sidebar?" and select Yes, display right sidebar.
3) Make sure you have the gallery layout settings set to display your gallery images as a background slider.
The social icons can be replaced in the theme files by opening sidebar.php. Look for:
echo " </ul><!-- end social_bookmarks-->";
Replace it with:
?>
<li class="linkedin"><a href="http://yoursociallink.com">LinkedIn</a></li>
<li class="pinterest"><a href="http://yoursociallink.com">Pinterest</a></li>
<?php
echo " </ul><!-- end social_bookmarks-->";
Now just above there you need to remove the rss, so find this line and delete it:
echo " <li class='rss'><a href='".avia_get_option('feedburner',get_bloginfo('rss2_url'))."'>RSS</a></li>";
The last step is replace the twitter and rss icons with your own. So add the following to your Quick CSS in the styling tab of the theme options:
.social_bookmarks .linkedin a{background: transparent url(yourimageurl.png) 0 0 no-repeat;}
.social_bookmarks .pinterest a{background: transparent url(yourimageurl.png) 0 0 no-repeat;}
The "yourimageurl.png" would be the location on your server of the icon for each of the links.
Regards,
Devin