Advanced S2 help..(embedding + style creation) Options

[MetroSonus]

Hello...

I've purchased an account to be able to embed my journal into my webpage. my understanding of how this works is thus:

You create a custom style and then link to it via a link that references the specific style. That allows you to have one style if people visit your journal directly and the other when viewed as a blog from my webapge.

I think I have that bit down. I dont have a clue on how to begin designing the style though. It seems like it's alot of programming and that seems a bit over my head. I can handle CSS fine, and all I want to do is make a black on white style that will just show the date of entry, and the entry with the typical 20 posts per page and the < back forward > style navigation at the bottom.

That's to say I want to remove the user pic, links from the header, comments tab ect.

Are there simple "true / false" style operators that will turn those on and off?

I feel like im grasping at strws here as this is all brand new to me..

Thanks for any help you can give..