Is there a way to set up a template that will always show an image in a certain spot. for example, always have the image on the left and text on the right.

It would be simple if the images were separate tags like {title}, {story}, {img}. Then throw them in div tags and format them with css.

Unfortunately not. Adding a {img} tag to the templates wouldn't really work as it'd prevent users from placing images where they want them to show in the article. This would also lead to more problems if a user was to add more than one image per article.

One way around this would be to create a template and place the news within a div element that has a unique ID, then target that element and the images within it using a bit of CSS.