Drupal challenge : Learn about templates and exporting features

1. create a content type it "My Content Type". Add 2 fields: title and description.
2. add a variant. Then select "My Content Type". Click selection rules.
3. add layout (under landing page dropdown). select 3 column simple as my layout (when everything is working and my page is displaying as it should - create the layout in code and use that instead)
4. Then add content. Add title and description to the main content
5. create a plugin to display hard coded content
6. Add the date. By default it will give me UNIX time stamp so I must change this (add new field - date)
7. use a plugin to transform the date
8. use a Drupal template to add markup

this is using the panels module - which can be done within the user interface.