Joomla template show image thumbnail on frontpage

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

W开发者_StackOverflow中文版hat 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.

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.

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.