Put it directly in the short story/full story.
mmmmm well I don't follow you..... I think he was talking on a way to put text and image in 2 columns directly when you insert the news. So I asume that is must be done or in the template or some code that make images go to a column directly when you insert.
BTW do you have time to read my post about open images when thumb are clicked, on a diferent window other than "php_self" ?
See iu