need help to make modification to this script

[madcaptains]

Hello,

I have a wordpress blog and would like to make some modification to the title of each post. For now, the script for the title part of each post is the following:

<h2 class="title"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div id="stats" class="clearfloat"><span class="left"><?php _e('Submitted by','arthemia');?> <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> <?php _e('on','arthemia');?> <?php the_time(get_option('date_format')); ?> – <?php the_time(); ?></span><span class="right"><a href="#respond"><?php comments_number(__('No Comment','arthemia'), __('One Comment','arthemia'), __('% Comments','arthemia') );?></a></span></div>

I want to make my title look a little like it is on this website

So basically, I want it split in 3 part: one for the image (I will call it with a custom field), one for the title and one for a small description (will use a custom field to call the excerpt). Finally, I will not display the author, date and number of comment with the title anymore.

I know how to use the custom field. All I need is some help to create the table that will arrange things together.

Thank you for your help!!!

[madcaptains]

ok, I figured some of it. my code is now like this:

<div id="post_thumb" class="clearfloat" >
<div id="post_image a img">
<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'title', true); ?>
</div></div></span>
<div id="post_title" class="clearfloat" >
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2><br/>
<?php the_excerpt() ?></div></span>

The <div id="post_image a img"> should add a border to the image but it does not. do you know what's wrong with it?

I am also trying to center the image but I am not sure how to do this.

Finally, that table has 2 cells (left and right). I would like to add some padding or spacing to the cells.

Thank you for your help