My suggestion is to use light box for image display. Pop ups, in my opinion are dead. Light box and similar scripts are very classy looking and easy to use.

I also suggest not going to a bidding type scenario. I did this for a while and almost starved. I base my work on 25 dollars per hour and a 5 hour minimum ( for very simple sites like photo...

Wow,

You are really confusing me. Why don't you just simply iframe your blog into each site. Or...........maybe thats not what you are going for. Or you could, wait, yeah that,....no...

i have many background files you can use if you like just PM and I will send them to you.

The only thing I can think of is if your financial site has some type of java applet or ticker instead of using iframe