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21 minutes ago, JLBali said:

Hi!

I would like my portfolio to use the  "alternating side by side blog" appearance with the image on one side and the title of the project on the other. I could not find a way to do that. 

Can you please help me?

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You're welcome to start with this Custom CSS, it may not work perfectly:

.portfolio-grid-basic {
  grid-template-columns:1fr;
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item .grid-image {
  width:50%;
}
.tweak-portfolio-grid-basic-image-aspect-ratio-11-square .portfolio-grid-basic .grid-image {
  padding-bottom: 50%;
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item:nth-child(odd) {
  flex-direction: row;
  align-items:center;
  justify-content: space-between;
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item:nth-child(even) {
  flex-direction: row-reverse;
  align-items:center;
  justify-content: space-between;
}

Let me know when you've added it, and how it looks, and we can try and adjust it.

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I tried to insert this code in the design css field, but it is not showing the images... could you please help me again? thank you!

.portfolio-grid-basic {
  grid-template-columns:1fr;
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item .grid-image {
  width:50%;
}
.tweak-portfolio-grid-basic-image-aspect-ratio-11-square .portfolio-grid-basic .grid-image {
  padding-bottom: 50%;
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item:nth-child(odd) {
  flex-direction: row;
  align-items:center;
  justify-content: space-between;
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item:nth-child(even) {
  flex-direction: row-reverse;
  align-items:center;
  justify-content: space-between;
}
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What page are you trying to apply this to?

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It doesn't look like you have thumbnail images for these, I see the code there correctly, but it contains no thumbnail image.

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You are totally right somehow they were taken off when I inserted the code. Now you can see the images. I modified the proportions and now somehow it is not aligned anymore. I was wondering if you could help me make it more similar to the blog on the text side (aligned to the left and with the learn more button). I attach two screenshot

Screenshot 2022-11-28 at 14.23.21.png

Screenshot 2022-11-28 at 14.23.32.png

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 Try this:

.portfolio-grid-basic {
  grid-template-columns: 1fr;
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item .grid-image {
  width: 50%;
}
.tweak-portfolio-grid-basic-image-aspect-ratio-11-square .portfolio-grid-basic .grid-image {
  padding-bottom: 50%;
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item:nth-child(odd) {
  flex-direction: row;
  align-items: center;
  margin-left: 6vw;
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item:nth-child(even) {
  flex-direction: row-reverse;
  align-items: center;
  margin-right: 6vw;
}

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Not yet there, now the title is too near to the picture and it is too small, I also changed something in you code to adjust spacing. Let me know if it is correct!

 

.portfolio-grid-basic {
  grid-template-columns: 1fr;
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item .grid-image {
  width: 60%;
  margin-bottom:10vw;
}
.tweak-portfolio-grid-basic-image-aspect-ratio-11-square .portfolio-grid-basic .grid-image {
  padding-bottom: 50%;
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item:nth-child(odd) {
  flex-direction: row;
  align-items: center;
  margin-right: 6vw;
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item:nth-child(even) {
  flex-direction: row-reverse;
  align-items: center;
  margin-left: 6vw;
}

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To change the position of the text next to the image, change the margin-right: 6vw; and margin-left: 6vw; to higher VW values, maybe start at 10vw and increase or decrease to suit your design.

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Try this:

.portfolio-grid-basic {
  grid-template-columns: 1fr;
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item .grid-image {
  width: 60%;
  margin-bottom:10vw;
}
.tweak-portfolio-grid-basic-image-aspect-ratio-11-square .portfolio-grid-basic .grid-image {
  padding-bottom: 50%;
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item:nth-child(odd) {
  flex-direction: row;
  align-items: center;
  margin-right: 4vw;
  .portfolio-text {
    margin-left:4vw;
  }
}
.portfolio-grid-basic .grid-item:nth-child(even) {
  flex-direction: row-reverse;
  align-items: center;
  margin-left: 4vw;
  .portfolio-text {
    margin-right:4vw;
  }
}

 

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Happy to help! Can you mark my post as the solution and give a thumbs up? Thanks!

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@Ziggy, can you help me also, please! I tried to apply your code to my case, but failed. 

I want to display my blog posts pulled in the summary block with 'alternating side by side' design. 
Here, on the Home page, is my summary block, under 'Legutóbbi projektjeink': https://broccoli-kumquat-bs8a.squarespace.com/ (pass: atnif)

And I want to give it the same look as the blog page here: https://broccoli-kumquat-bs8a.squarespace.com/hu/projektek

Can you help me, please?

Thanks in advance

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@antasz The code I provided was for a portfolio page not a summary block. It's probably possible to re-use the code for .sqs-block-summary-v2 .summary-item.

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