Paid Drupal services

Having sold my old business in June, I am in the process of starting a new one up. I am looking to set up a dedicated server on which to put some Drupal (and a few simpler non-Drupal) sites.

I am not a techie, and need someone to back me up at the LAMP level. I'm looking for someone to be up the curve on everything at the system level, including firewalls, etc.. I would also want someone who can keep me at an appropriately updated level of Drupal, and add modules as necessary. Rather than pay a hosting provider a surcharge for high level technical support, and then still getting someone who does not talk Drupal, I would rather host with a more basic and affordable colocation type package, and pay someone on a regular, ongoing basis to be, in effect, a part time CTO.

Starting out, obviously enough, the demands are pretty limited. If, as planned, the sites grow to where I need more servers for load balancing, serving databases, and so on, I need someone with the chops to handle that kind of installation within a Drupal environment.

I would not expect you to be a graphic designer able to do templates, but I would want you to be able to have the basic template engines up and available on the server.

I'm figuring time will average 10 to 20 hours a month. I would want to pay a set monthly fee, rolling over unused hours to later months, and paying by the hour for extra time.

I wanted to know if anyone could help me customize the 2 column ported Kubrick theme for Drupal into a 3 column theme like it is on this site http://www.blogherald.com/ (Using WordPress). I would like a clear line showing that separates the columns/sections like it is on http://www.joystiq.com/, http://www.engadget.com/. Basically as close to these sites as possible. The logo will be on the left, and a 468x60 banner on the right. The one for Drupal is here, http://drupal.org/project/kubrick. I tried to modify it, but it didn't come out as good as I thought it would.

The upper corners don't have to be rounded like they are currently, the could be like:
http://www.joystiq.com/, http://www.engadget.com/, http://www.tuaw.com/, http://www.bloggator.com/, http://www.liewcf.com/. Any design closes to the first 4-5 sites would be great. Arial fonts used throughout the css file.

I really like the layout, color scheme of this site http://www.revenews.com/. Can you reproduce this to work with Drupal?

How much would it cost to make a copy (as close as possible, not 100%) of the themes being used on these two sites? AV Club site (http://avclub.com/content/home), & the new Onion site (http://www.theonion.com/content/)? I have a few sites that I am working on, and I would like to use some new themes on them, I will order some new ones depending on the price.

Earlier when I was planning on using Wordpress and making the the website a blog only site, I was quoted $4-500+ for some basic themes, and at one point I asked for a small modification, changing layout, some graphics etc for a Wordpress theme, and the guy wanted $300 for it. The ones I have listed here are far more complex than what I requested before. $300 to modify the Kubrick theme is not justified. I am willing to spend money just as long as I know what I am getting.

http://drupal.org/node/28730

I am an intermediate PHP coder. Drupal is the first CMS I have attempted to use. I am struggling with some the concepts and am spinning my wheels trying to learn and implement basic stuff.

I am looking for someone who can assist immediately, can speak and write English well, preferably in the U.S. (in case we need to speak on the phone). My application at this point does not need customized modules although that will change. Depending on your interest and assistance, there could be on-going work from time to time as the project evolves.

I have an account with he.net and have uploaded the latest drupal package and decompressed it. I am not very familiar with mysql and am having problems with the install. All I want is assistence with the basic install and adding the Gallery2 module. Would anyone be interested in assisting in my install? I would be willing to pay. Please email me at jmbunnell@sbcglobal.net with some idea of what you would be willing to charge me for this service or respond to this post. Thanks in advance.

Hello, I need help getting the following form: http://babyfm.com/select finished. The info on this form and the following page have to be emailed securely and the user given a reciept. Please let me know how much you would charge to complete the work. I don't know php and this work has to be completed quickly.