I'm currently using an old Revolution theme (http://www.squahsyfrog.com/) but the new Agent theme here: http://www.studiopress.com/demo... (this is a demo) looks pretty neat. - Kol Tregaskes

The 3 columns would be ideal as I could lay it out something like what Mark Krnsky has done here (http://krynsky.com/) with perhaps the FF activity widget underneath. - Kol Tregaskes

But the new Agent themes are pretty expensive and I'm wondering if there are alternatives out there that are free or at least cheaper? - Kol Tregaskes

Ideally I would like to use something that I easily change the colours so to use on 3, possibly 4, separate self-hosted WordPress sites. - Kol Tregaskes

That's a pretty nice site, thanks Kristian. - Kol Tregaskes

Guillermo, again, a nice looking site. - Kol Tregaskes

@Kol I did this with a Revolution theme: http://www.prevailmagazine.org - Shey

Shey, that looks really good. I see it's one of the newer ones, cool. My query has progressed; today I've been given the Agent theme as a free upgrade, so I'm working on it at http://www.koltregaskes.com/. I'm currently playing, testing and then will try and convert it to my "serious" photography site. I'm going to try and import from my other photo site and see how it looks. - Kol Tregaskes

Are you doing a photo blog Kol? - Shey

I agree with Kol - that site looks very good Shey ... - Patrick Jordan

Shey, yep. I have one here already: http://www.squashyfrog.com/ - a bit rough round the edges as I've been testing FF stuff on it. This will be the "fun" photo site. The one above will be the serious one - I'm debating whether it needs a blog at all but I think it should. - Kol Tregaskes

In addition to this I'm redoing my business site, though that'll be very static (http://www.e-lusionltd.com/) and I'd like to get my personal site back up and running (http://www.e-lusion.co.uk/ - blank site atm) so I can dump my thoughts and any of the best stuff I share on FF, etc. - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah a lot of sites to look after but I feel having photography and my random stuff together will be messy. Besides it's really just 2 that'll be updated regularly and it's fairly easy with a WordPress site... in theory. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

there's lots of them, but these immediately came to mind: http://perpenduum.com/ & http://www.valetmag.com/ & http://www.selectism.com/news/ & http://www.dezeen.com/ & http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/ & http://www.dailyicon.net/ - Cee Bee

the new swiss-miss is pretty nice too. real simple and clutter free: http://www.swiss-miss.com/ - Cee Bee

I'm working on some website ideas & projects too. I'm not a designer and am not planning to hire one for these projects at this stage but hey.. Interesting thread. Thanks for the suggestions guys - Thierry R. Andriamirado from twhirl

kol, your squashyfrog site looks great - Cee Bee

@CeeBee something tells me you like minimalism lol - Shey

Thanks, Cee. Hehe, Shey. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

ha, yeah i guess there is a trend in my choices. i'm more attracted to site that contain less in the way of ads, blogrolls, calendars and assorted links on the sides. that's why i'm such a fan of the way posterous is set up - Cee Bee

The free IAMWW w2 theme look super cool. Minimalist but stylish. Love what they have done with the scroll down of the categories. http://iamww.com/wordpre... - Peter Efland

ummm, myspace - The Real sofarsoShawn

Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes