I managed to get some things moving forward on this – so it is great you can change the look of the New, Edit and Display forms, but what about the SharePoint list once everything has been saved ?
DFFS is designed to allow customization of the 3 SharePoint forms. It is not designed to customize the look of lists, EXCEPT that you can use the VLookup code on a list to display child items on the list view, which native SharePoint does not do.