<div>You should probably approach this using Views, imagefield, and imagecache.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://drupal.org/project/views">http://drupal.org/project/views</a></div><div><a href="http://drupal.org/project/imagefield">http://drupal.org/project/imagefield</a></div>
<div><a href="http://drupal.org/project/imagecache">http://drupal.org/project/imagecache</a></div><div><br></div><div><meta charset="utf-8">I've never heard of dRockLatestNews and I would anticipate most people on this list haven't either. I personally don't encourage using using contributed modules that aren't hosted or supported on <a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a>. You're unlikely to find much help or support in the community otherwise.</div>
<div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:47 PM, prothero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prothero@geol.ucsb.edu">prothero@geol.ucsb.edu</a>></span> wrote:</div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi. I'd like to have the latest blog postings in an abbreviated list on my home page. Somewhat Like dRockLatestNews modules. But, each posting in the dRock modules require a thumbnail image and shows a "?" if no image is present. I don't want my users to have to create a thumbnail for every blog they post. What should I do to just get the first 100 or so chars, with a title, listing of the latest 6 or so blog postings?<div>
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<font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:12px">William A. Prothero</span></span></span></font></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
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