Hi ilansch,
I'm using the newsy theme with 2 Hero items and two columns, and I would like them to show the items more square and side by side, currently they are showing very rectangular and on top of each other and too much to the left of the page, see image
newsy theme is indeed designed to be like that. Hero items will always placed in the left column.
You can use other theme for that, such as default theme or carouselxt theme.
I changed to the carouselxt theme and they did change to be side by side but they are way to wide.
Regarding the width item that is too wide, carouselxt will automatically follow its parent wrapper/container. And the
'blog-top' module position you have in your template (where the minifrontpage is published) indeed have a full width characteristic (no margin left and right). Maybe you can try to change the module position to the other else.
Anyway I have changed the theme to carouselxt and added css code below to the css adjustment tab to add extra margin in the left and right of module, please have a look :
.mfp_mid_319 {
margin:0 6em;!important }