Joomla template show image thumbnail on frontpage

Question

Using joomla 1.5 how do you add thumbnail images to the list of articles on the frontpage.

What I am after is something similar to this http://templates.joomlart.com/ja_quartz/ (scroll down to the list under welcome to the frontpage) As you can see this shows the date, then a thumbnail image and then a snippet of the article with a read more link. If this is an extension does anyone know which one it is? I don't want to buy the template as I am just after that specific piece of functionality.

Answer 1

I am not 100% certain, but it looks like they simply overloaded the arlicle blog layout, custom layout in template/html/com_content/ directory.

Look at there 2 components, you can achieve pretty much the same thing:

1. K2
2. ZOO, from Yootheme

Both are great. Personally I would go with Zoo, Yotheme does a fantastic job at all their products. Code is clean and easy to modify. Have not worked much with K2, have not heard any bad things about it.

Answer 2

The sample you linked specifically does it with the standard Joomla content component. They are using a template override that styles the article intro text to look like that.

As Alex mentioned, K2 and ZOO both have that style capability built in. I am a K2 user and that type listing is one of the defaults. K2 allows the user to associate an image with a content item that can then be displayed in several sizes and locations. I have not used ZOO much, but Yootheme does have pretty nice code. Either way would probably work well.