Wordpress site setup

We bought a Wordpress Template (Akita by ThemeBlvd) and need help getting it in shape. It is already installed, but we need all of the components put into place to make it work. There is some more work to do, but here is the full description: *** First, we need help making it look like the sample at [login to view URL] Select the Akita theme and then under Sample Layouts, select Business Homepage #1. This is how we want our site to look. The first block (the part that says "Enter in the content you’d like to show. You may use basic HTML, and most shortcodes.") we would like to read: Vintage, Antiques, Folk Art and Pinball Emporium and to be thinner...more well-designed way to display that store description sentence above Next, we want our featured picture blog entries to rotate like that image dissolve thing on the sample site highlights those posts. Please set a few up to rotate just like the sample site and teach us how to feature posts like that. The pictures should dissolve (not slide), just like on the sample site. *** The second part of this project is to take our logo (we have photoshop, illustrator, gif and jpg versions) and make the background Transparent so that it looks like the "Akita" logo (shows the background color/pattern) behind it. Add to the site. We may ask that this is made bigger in order to suggest a bigger, bolder logo (but chopping off some of the top and bottom). The Adobe Illustrator version of this logo is attached to this project. *** The third part is to set up our menu/sections in Wordpress: Home, Blog, About, Portfolio, In Stock, Customers, Contact Home will just direct to the home page. Blog will go to a (standard?) blog section. About will be a static "About Us" page - you set it up, we will fill it in later. Just set it up for us to fill in. Portfolio will contain individual pieces of furniture that we have done or carried in the past and sold, just to showcase what we do and have done. Need help on how to execute that, and maybe two sample posts. Under the "In Stock" section, the sub-categories will be: Furniture Vintage/Antiques Pinball Slot Machine Arcade Games Oddities Under Customers will be: Furniture Arcade Oddities Contact will be a static page for us to fill in with this info: Central Oddities 2055 Central Ave. St. Petersburg, FL. 33713 [Removed by Freelancer.com admin; exchanging of contact information is prohibited unless the project is already awarded.] email: ---------- OTHER WIDGETS NEEDED: * "Sign up for our newsletter" widget in place, and a recommendation on how to make the newsletter happen (a service to use, such as aweber, or perhaps if WordPress has a built-in service or available widget? Just need that recommendation here and set it up). * Tag cloud * Facebook feed for [login to view URL] the last two entries to facebook. * RSS subscribe link The link will be [login to view URL] - right now it is [login to view URL] but any references/links on the site must be to [login to view URL] Thank you!