Hi Xyphien,
For the first issue, If you are editing the Demo Project, there are two places you will need to change in order to make Battles in Front View. The first place is the Common Event called Initialize, here we do a script call that sets Side View as the default. You can feel free to remove this line or set the value to false in order to make Front View battles the default.
Next, you will want to clear the Battle Events in the Enemy Troops. All of them have script calls are set to change the configuration if the Settings are in Side View. If you delete the Conditional that is asking for $dataSystem.optSideView that should do the trick.
For the second issue, if your project is using the PartyUI_A plugin, you can increase the width of the Status Window in the plugin parameters. This will allow the name, resources and health to spread out more evenly. Right now it looks like the Micro Status Window width is really small which is causing issues. Try increasing it to 384 px or higher and see if that makes a difference.
If you are not using PartyUI_A plugin for your game project then you will need to use another plugin to modify the UI.
Hope this helps. Please let us to know if you run into any further issues and we can help you troubleshoot them here.