Formatting of Blog block content on home page

I have a Blog Block on the home page of the site I am revising.

How is it possible to format the content in the Blog block when it is on the front page as at the moment it appears to be very untidy.

I would like it to be neater and only really have the headline and not all  the text content from the actual blog entry.

You can view it here:

http://www.thegorbals.co.uk/ideasforchange

Any inputs most welcome.

One thing you can do is to go the admin and change the amount of text shown in the Blog preview in that block.  If that is not enough, then you will need to change the template.  I will be back in a minute with more details.

If you go to your admin, click on modules and choose Blogs, you will see a list of items where you can control such things as the blog thumbnail sizes and the amount of text to show in the preview.  That might tidy things up a bit more for that block.

Many thanks for that geek_girl. Its a small change for now.

Is there a way to align text etc? There doesn't appear to be any control of the content other than the number of words. From Blog item to blog item the 'headline would not always be the same number of words  so the Blog block would begin to look untidy.

I'mm making a fresh approach to the set up I have after leaving it for a while. I'd like to achieve what I set out to and overcome the messy bits and structural elements which have gotten in the way.

Help such as yours is invaluable.

If you don't want or don't know how to change a programming side, you can hide all the text content via css styles.

.unit_info .blog_text{

  display:none;

}

First of all I would recommend to turn off all site cache while you working on the site, otherwise

you'll need to clear it every time you made a change.

On the other hand, besides just appearance you have to think of your members as well.  Some excerpt helps members to see if they want to go and read the post.

Thanks for that geek_girl.

I guess I was just wanting the blog block to show the headlines and not the story itself.

If there is a better way to achieve this then that would be great.

You can set the preview amount to zero in the admin, that would not show any preview content of the blog post.  However, that setting is used in the other places that shows the list of blog posts, such as going to Blog Home.  The Outline does not use that setting for the text preview of the blog post.