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While it doesn't reduce the Blog entry heading to just the title, the NEWS application, does reduce the entry to a quote of the first few lines. It also takes the first image in the post as a thumbnail for the entry.
For the sake of neatness you need to be careful to make sure the first image in each entry has the same aspect ratio. My example blog (a News application) is at:
http://www.gregafloat.plus.com/blog/index.htmlGo to page four and five of the posts to see the effect of using a different aspect ratio image or no image at all. (Using a portrait orientation image looked even worse to my eye!) In this example there's also been a fair bit of CSS applied in the "Look and Feel" of the application to compress the links in the header area and give the blog a matching colour scheme to the rest of the site.
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