Thanks for your comment. In regards to your question, I had a quick look on the new Thesis 1.5 theme and this is compatible with Wordpress 2.7.1 as it says on their website. It’s neither a lesser or higher spec. Just to clarify for understanding, you will need Wordpress 2.7.1 installed, then the Thesis 1.5 theme to go on top of it as a skin to run your blog. I have heard some great things with Thesis 1.5 and it’s a very simple theme to install allowing you to customise your blog very easily. I would recommend trying out WP-ecommerce plugin for running your shop and it should be able to handle up to 100products. If you are looking to run a fully functional e-commerce store I would recommend trying Magento Commerce. It has a lot more functionality and can be integrated with your blog.

Let me know how you go?

Thanks.

Thank you for that comparison it has answered many of the questions I had. One thing I would like to know is wordpress 2.7 is this lesser or higher spec than Thesis 1.5. I am looking at using Thesis as this will be the first website and I want something that I can learn to use myself. That said I will be selling non digital non IM products that I have developed myself so I will need a shopping cart but 100 products would more than cover the range for the forseeable future. Can you please advise if thesis is OK for this. I am trying to achieve the functionality of a standard website i.e video, opt in box, etc.. but with the ease of use of wordpress and the SEO of a blog format.
Thanks again and I look forward to your reply.
Terry