I have never used the 'Conduit Method', but I do use wordpress quite often. Inevitably, I use pre-set templates. Generally with the sheer number of currently availabe templates, one can easily be found for almost any niche available.

Would you mind a bit self promotion
http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-included.html

I just released a major update on it. It's more an authority look then simple minisite as that is the way I like to build sites. I also wanted to display eBay listings on those sites but in the end wrote a plugin as I understood not everybody would like that. As it's a plugin you can also use it on any other wordpress site you might have.

Edwin

Here are the ones I use.
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