page based blocks

Hi Everyone!

I am a newbie in web design, new to Acquia Slate and am very excited to have found this group. Hoping to manipulate some blocks such as the login block. I would like to place it on header-top but throw it on the right-hand side and without the Open-ID option. Basically, I want it to look much like it does on the showcased site Cornerstone Gospel Church.

I'm in the middle of trying to figure out the right experience for installing and using Acquia's hosted search platform. In doing so, I had to think about how to build pages that were Solr enabled. In parallel, I've been thinking about a better way work with blocks. The two topics were fairly connected, so I started working on some concepts.