no worries about that. It's taken me 6 months to get to this stage after moving from another forum software so I know exactly where you are coming from. The feed view is generated from a basic template. <div class='general_box'>
<h3>{$title}</h3>
<ul class='hfeed'>
<if test="is_array( $records ) && count( $records )">
{parse striping="feed_striping" classes="row1,row2 altrow"}
<foreach loop="$records as $r">
<li class='hentry {parse striping="feed_striping"}'><a href='{$r['url']}' rel='bookmark' title='{$r['title']}'>{$r['title']}</a>
<br /><span class='date'><abbr class="published" title="{parse expression="date( 'c', $r['date'] )"}">{parse date="$r['date']" format="short"}</abbr></span>
<span class='desctext'>{IPSText::truncate( strip_tags($r['content']), 200 )}</span>
</li>
</foreach>
</if>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
Its basically a case of editing here to get it to view how you want it too, granted thats the hard part, but I am sure that there would be plenty of help and you would get to understand the engine more. Due to version 3 not being that old there is no dummies guide yet, but as you can see more and more people are having a go as the weeks go by.
The page http://www.nzweather.net/links.html?category=7 is created in IP.Content too as as you can see at the bottom there are filters and sorting options, so its definately a possible ;)