Post excerpts with left-aligned pic on each?

By adding enough tweaks to the margins, I can make this work, but I'm hoping there's an easier way to set up post excerpts such that each new post will be formatted like these, with an image aligned to the left:

http://web.me.com/fuzzpodmusic/Site/News/News.html

While you're looking at it, how can I get content (those images and text) to always be on the posts page, above the posts?

Thanks in advance. This is easily the most useful online forum in the world. You guys are the best. Broke now, but I'll be donating more as soon as I get paid for this project(!)