Skin Questions

[Lotus]

I would like to attempt to make a very simple skin, but I am not sure on how it all works yet, so here are my questions.
I would like my skin to be designed for running videos, emulators, and PC games.
Here is the version I made for a different front end, so tell me how hard it would be to make something like this for a Media Portal.

This is the base image, though I want to flip the section with the list over to the other side.


Note I want to remove the side bar from being visible, unless I press over to select it, then it should simply pop out from the side. Everything should default to the list type and not be changable. I want the icons from the games and video to only show when they are selected. I would also like to only show around 7 titles for stuff at a time, with the selected one being in the center and a larger brighter font, and have the rest fade towards the ends.

Anyways, if this is possible let me know, if you can help me with it, that would also be appreciated.

Thanks,
Glenn