Create a Wordpress Template

We are setting up an affiliate marketing website. We want the functionality of our website to be similar to that of www.thisiswhyimbroke.com. So we want to be able to list products that are available on other sites with a Buy It Now button for each one that takes you to the right website with the correct link so we will get the commission from the sites in question. We want to be able to add all the content ourselves but we just need the template setting up as I am struggling to do it myself with Wordpress and Themes such as Courtier or Viper. In terms of style I would ideally like it to look more like this site, [login to view URL] as this is going to be similar to our site in terms of content.