gave this a good go today. Without my coding companion, it's difficult and I have to go bit by bit.
So I have currently settled for just having two latest fan works and two random fan works.  I can work on it some more slowly, I think I want to reduce the size of the fanwork thumbnails and i want to include a sort of carousel so more can be included.
The random ones are not fully random either, or at least they don't feel random.