Joomla tip? :)

Now, Right ima just get to the point.

In Joomla when you select how you want your articles on a different page, e.g. not the frontpage to be displayed, theirs only 2 options, And i detest them both.

Is there any way of editing the way that it looks.. and how the individual content items are displayed...

i.e. - I have the homepage sorted, it has lots of different news sliders well, 4 :L But it's looking fine..... then i have page called 'Gigs' and all the articles under gigs are displayed in there.. but they look really horrible, the way its presented,

anyone know how to maybe add a news slider and some good looking blog layouts to it?

THANKS =D