I've talked about Blueprint here in the past because I use it here and on konigi. Fans of Drupal and Blueprint will be happy to hear that Ted Serbinski has released a Drupal theme that utilizes the Blueprint CSS Framework. Keep in mind that this is for fixed-width layouts only.

Among the features announced:

• normalizes Drupal’s CSS to be consistent
• properly aggregates all blueprint CSS files into a single file when this setting is enabled
• put scripts at bottom of page for nice performance gains
• flexible layout, from 1 to 3 columns, based on where you configure your blocks to show (left, center, right)
• SEO optimization without the need for heavy modules and additional queries per page
• better forum icons
• improved forum display and performance
• prevents duplicate form submissions with jQuery
• shows the # of comments below a node since Drupal doesn’t do this by default (usability)
• highlight any comments by the author of the node
• adds a “you need to login / register” box below all comments if you can’t add a comment (usability)
• supports conditional comment subjects, if the setting is off it won’t show a chopped off title of the comment
• uses CSSEdit comments for grouping of styles

Download the Blueprint Theme here.

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Got email today about The Amazon Affiliates aStore Beta, which will let affiliates create quick and dirty stores using Amazon's inventory. Their design tool lets you select featured products and then use keywords to add categories of products. Then you can modify the colors and point people to the store or serve in an iframe.

Here's the nice design interface. Looks a bit like a wireframe.

I'd been thinking about separating my cycling blog and events calendar from urlgreyhot, so I quickly threw together a cycling aStore to see how it works. Check it out at LOVE+SPROCKETS.

Pretty quick. Took me about an hour to throw that together.