why dont you try installing Wordpress and simply put a theme on it !!

PS: Dont place more then 3 adsense ads on your website because of new adsense rules

See your signature ?

Try Clickbump theme.

Go to any freelancing site like oDesk or freelancer and hire some one who is skilled in designing. You will see many people there working in similar projects. Just find out some one who have good feedback and rating with live portfolio.

You can hire a website designer at ODesk, Guru or Freelance but honestly I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to install Wordpress on your site, pick a free theme, install the theme and include AdSense on the WP blog. That's very easy to do and if you haven't done it before, don't panic, if you get into any kind of trouble, post it here and we will help you out for sure!

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Design is not main thing that you should care, traffic is the one you should worry about. If you on first page of google with certain keyword, average about 200 visitor a day you make money with any design.

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..he is asking for a designer..not for an advice how to drive a traffic...after he will get the site built..than come with the advices for driving some traffic...

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I wouldn't be to fussy about your initial design. You can spend a lot of time and money trying to get it 'just right' only to find that you don't get anough traffic to prove that the design time was worth it.

Once you've got decent content and traffic volume, then you can start split-testing different layouts.