Galery template does look good, as long as you include at least one pic for every single post you publish. Yeah, i understand if you want a galery template for you are website.
Speaking english my friends, the code that i'm going to share here does not belong to me, i just took it from my template.
Very well! Here is javascript code, put it in your template somewhere in betwen tag <head>
<script type='text/javascript'>
summary_img = 550;
summary_no_img = 650;
summary_img_width = 125;
summary_img_height = 95;
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
function RemoveHtmlTag(strx,chop) {
if(strx.indexOf("<")!=-1) {
var s = strx.split("<"); for(var i=0;i<s.length;i++) {if(s[i].indexOf(">")!=-1) {s[i] = s[i].substring(s[i].indexOf(">")+1,s[i].length);
}
}
strx = s.join("");
}
chop = (chop < strx.length-1) ? chop : strx.length-2; while(strx.charAt(chop-1)!=' ' && strx.indexOf(' ',chop)!=-1) chop++; strx = strx.substring(0,chop-1);
return strx+'...';
}
function CreateSummaryAndThumb(pID) {var div = document.getElementById(pID);
var imgtag = "";
var img = div.getElementsByTagName("img");
var summ = summary_no_img;
if(img.length>=1) {imgtag = '<span style="float:left; padding:0px 10px 5px 0px;">
<img src="'+img[0].src+'" width="'+summary_img_width+'px" height="'+summary_img_height+'px"/></span>';
summ = summary_img;
}
var summary = imgtag + '<div>' + RemoveHtmlTag(div.innerHTML,summ) + '</div>';
div.innerHTML = summary;
}
//]]>
</script>
Now that you done with the above code, find <data:post.body/> in your template. I will not tell you how to put the following code in your template exactly, but you have to replace the "data:post.body" tag with the code.
Sorry, but i forgot already what codes are before or after its "data:post.body" tag, if any. So, use your own imagination for it, anyhow you know that the main gol is you have to replace its data:post.body tag with the following code. So am i clear my friend? :)
<p>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "static_page"'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<div expr:id='"summary" + data:post.id'><data:post.body/></div>
<script type='text/javascript'>CreateSummaryAndThumb("summary<data:post.id/>");</script>
</b:if>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'><data:post.body/></b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "static_page"'><data:post.body/></b:if>
</p>
Have you gotten done with the above? Well, now save your changes and see the magic happen..
Here are things that you may want to make a little change on.
*summary_img - defines how many characters to show if the post has image to show.
*summary_no_img - defines how many characters to show if the post has no image to show.
*summary_img_width - defines how wide the image to show.
*summary_img_height - defines how very high the image to show.
That is it my friends, that is it. If you have any question about the code, or if you face a bussiness with the code, or anything else, you tell me okay? We'll get it right together. Meanwhile, you have a try.. :)