Blog layout on Galapagos to show images

Site URL: https://www.studiogiraffe.sg/blog

Is there any way to change the format of the Galapagos main blog page to show image thumbnails, ideally with the posts as a grid instead of a list?

3 hours ago, tulikasud said:

Site URL: https://www.studiogiraffe.sg/blog

Is there any way to change the format of the Galapagos main blog page to show image thumbnails, ideally with the posts as a grid instead of a list?

Do you mean something like this?

Yes exactly! Is that possible?

53 minutes ago, tulikasud said:

Yes exactly! Is that possible?

You can use the standard layout of Squarespace

After that, you can choose the image to the left, change image size.

Where do I find this menu for selecting the standard layout? I'm on 7.0, Galapagos template and can't seem to find it.

9 minutes ago, tulikasud said:

Where do I find this menu for selecting the standard layout? I'm on 7.0, Galapagos template and can't seem to find it.

Edit your post > Drag the image to the left of text

After that, we have this result

The final result:

Hope that it makes sense

I see. Unfortunately this method will only work if I enable the entire article to show up rather than just an excerpt. Which wouldn't work for me as each article is quite long. I just want it to show the headline, thumbnail and first bit of text rather than the entire article.

In this case, you can consider setting the style of max-height for text and hide the remaining

On 9/21/2022 at 11:26 AM, tulikasud said:

Is there any way to change the format of the Galapagos main blog page to show image thumbnails, ideally with the posts as a grid instead of a list?

The Galapagos template is now very old (Nov 2013) and has fewer style tweaks than newer templates. With this template, blog pages display as a list of vertically-stacked posts. There isn't an option for an alternative layout. 

However you may want to try using a Summary Block instead. You can use Summary Blocks to display your blog content in a layout that isn't otherwise available, including Grid and Wall.

To do this, create a new page, add a Summary Block and then connect it to your blog like this: