$25 Amazon e-gift card for someone that can help me customize a widget space :)

The task at hand is to modify my current wordpress theme (forumengine) running on my website (www.symposiarch.org) to resemble that of a different website (http:/naruto.gamehop.com/forum/) which is operating on the same wordpress theme (forumengine).

While I don’t want it to be exactly identical, I do want a similar space immediately below the div.header-top.bg.header and above the div.header-bottom.header-filter, of my site (symposiarch), in order to be able to implement widgets. I want this space about 150px in height and spanning across the same distance as the header-top and header-bottom.

The widget space on ‘naruto.gamehop’s’ theme is using an image slider, hot topics this week, and a top posters widget. I simply want one image slider that extends across the widget space. So, in other words, I want a single widget space in contrast to the three widget spaces in ‘naruto.gamehop’s’ site. Please note that I do not yet have in mind an image slider widget to use within the space, I simply want a functional widget space in which I can drag and drop widgets into – I’ll find a suitable widget for my site at a later point in time.

Since my website is operating on a pre-made theme I am not entirely sure how to code it to my liking (whilst incorporating it into the themes code) in addition to customizing the widget space. The few tutorials I have attempted to follow online with detailed instructions have resulted in failure. I should mention that I am a complete novice at this. I do, however, know my way around wordpress, know how to identify simple coding and, further, know how to operate a coding program such as CODA 2, photoshop, cpanel, etc.

More things I should mention, I want this image slider (widget space) to only appear on the front-page. When navigating the forum/blog I do not want it present. This image slider will feature blog posts of my website.

If there is someone who will take me up on helping me create this widget space I will, obviously provide the necessary additional details to you as they are needed. But again, I’m a noob so you will have to provide me with some serious guidance. I don’t imagine this task is all that involved, but given my experience it is quite the challenge for me.

Looking forward to hearing from you! And thanks in advance.

P.S. Gift card will be emailed to you. The email from amazon will contain a code that you punch into your amazon account in order to redeem the gift certificate.