I want to feature aroud 10-15 posts on the homepage, include videos and lots of images with posts as well.

Optionally I'd like the images to be automatically generated from the body text of the post and appropriate formatted (dimensions, size etc)

The portal is for a tech review site so it should have a techy feel to it.

I found one very attractive one here
http://www.skinpress.com/elegantmag/

However, I emailed the admin and commented on the forum and nobody has got back to me for a week, I wanted to know about support and compatibility issues, but I guess the non-response answers my question pretty much, it's probably unlikely to continue being developed as wordpress evolves.

Anyone have similar/better wordpress portals out there for me to have a look at?

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/u...ss-as-a-portal