As you can see from my site here my posts show up in their entirety. is there a way I can arrange them so they are shortened ? see this site for an example
Do you use the excerpt box to shorten it? This might depend on your theme, of course. There's a plugin for it.
I have just learned how to add the "read more" tab before that the whole article was showing however when you go into a category like this one for example, i would prefer it to be set out like the example i gave in my first post Is there a plug in for that? or is it totally down to the theme?