Blog design for popular review site

Federal Reviews & Everyday Wealth

I'm a product developer and marketer with a fast growing company that provides the tools and education to help entrepreneurs start their own web businesses. Federal reviews is a newly acquired web property that reviews products teaching people how to make money. The old owner didn't keep the site up, the reviews were very poorly written and we'd like to create a site that truly helps entrepreneurs make smart buying decisions.

Entrepreneurs
Male and female
30-40 is the common age however we have everyone from 18-81 years old

The blog design must be able to work with the popular Thesis framework.

The title will be: FederalReviews.com - Connecting entrepreneurs with products they can trust.

Directly below the title a disclaimer that states: Disclaimer: this site or anyone affiliated with this site is NOT in any way shape or form related to the feds, federal government, or any type of government agency. In smaller gray or black font.

Below that and still part of the title must be: brought to you by: EVERYDAY WEALTH LOGO (I've attached the everyday wealth logo to this listing.)

The blog needs to be 2 column design with tabs (or links (see tabs image for idea)) some where in the upper right for navigation (5 tabs is fine) and space for an optin form near the top right (see optin-form image for example)

The optin for is for a magazine quality weekly pdf newsletter.

Specific colors are up to you and your imagination (keep in mind the everyday wealth logo).

The old site is: federalreviews.com

The new style will take all the reviews and post them as individual blog posts.

On the right sidebar there needs to be a "popular reviews" listing similar to the sidebar-with-comments image.

Above the popular reviews in the sidebar should be a "Featured Product" maybe starred or something :)

I've attached several other images to help you get an idea of the different design aspects that I like.

Good luck!