vertical

I would like to change the design of the upper stats block, I would like to make it smaller and perhaps horizontal instead of vertical. Maybe something more like this (this was photoshopped)

I am having a problem with addthis social sharing. I would like to take the minimalist approach and have compact buttons as configurable by the dbseo control panel "page setting". Only when I disable social sharing does this large addthis vertical bar go away. I was confused on why I did not...