no pic at the moment, my workstation is a mess! the decoulping capacitor would go one on either side of the chip, one leg on VCC and one leg on GRND. I place them in between the wire and the pins.
Also the way you described the LED is correct but in the picture you cant see what row the resistor is actually plugged into. I cant tell you how many times I've poured over a board ready to pull my hair out and the realize a wire or pin was off by one row!