Tricks, tips, tutorials, pictures and words

I've already implemented this way to cut down the visual size of a post but it's far from elegant for large chunks of text. If I past the template code 5 times it seriously bloats the front page to an utter slowness far beyond being useful.

A new "read more" link

For reference, the short post is here:
http://categories.blogspot.com/?blogger_scripts

And the full post is here:
ttp://categories.blogspot.com/2005/12/new-read-more-link.html