Hey Thanks Dene,
I had overlooked that there was a forum on the Themeforest page for that theme. That was helpful. Two other people had made posts that were exactly what i was wanting to know, unfortunately they were never addressed.
Something triggered though and I realized that if you want an image thumb on your front page your going to have to write your post around the allocated space. Or do with out it on the front page and insert an image into the post separately.
The way it is programmed the thumb image and the excerpt are built in the same rectangle. The actual blog post will not start any higher than above below the thumb image. Rats! So the resolve without rewriting code is to cut the beginning of the post to exactly the right length and paste it into the excerpt box. Not what i wanted but guess it will allow me to sharpen my wordsmithing skills.
Thanks again for pointing me to the discussion board. I’ll take up my quandary with the author. Have a great day.
