Hello
1. For this area the image was place in the
top-1a module position. A
Module Style Override was then created (template settings) to which added a minus top margin (
-110) to the top-1a module position.
2. This area was created using the
J51 News module. An install file for this module is included with your template (mod_j51news.zip)...
https://joomla51.com/tutorials/item/setting-up-the-j51-news-module
3. For the parent menu item
columns-3 was added to the
Link CSS Style field to set the cild items to 3 columns. For each of the child menu items and image was adding using the
Link Image field. Each of these fields are in
Link Type tab of your menu item settings.
Ciarán