WordPress Design Help Needed

Is anyone in the readership good with WordPress templates and CSS? I want to finally move the blog to my domain, but the idea of learning PHP (and coding the underlying text) is daunting. So is trying to write the CSS page, though I don't doubt I can do that.

I want the WP version to look exactly like this: two fixed-width side columns filled with links; variable-width middle column for posts. Same color and look, etc. I know it's "bad form" but I can live with keeping this as table-formatted if it's simpler to achieve. I can rewrite the CSS page to create a reversed B&W version (for those deluded folks who hate white text on black), as well as some other color variants, I think.

If you can do the job, drop me an email and give me an idea of your costs. I'm really poor, so I can't afford much, but I'd like to explore this more seriously and get it over with.