Visual/HTML Editor Issues with Text and Images

Hi,

This is my first WordPress site and so a newbie to WordPress 3.

I’m currently developing a site for a client and I am faced with the following issues/concerns with regards to WordPress Pages that have a Default Custom WordPress page template assigned to them, that I have created.

In actual fact, the whole theme I created was from Starkers Theme.

The concerns are:

1) For my About-Us page, I have placed all my CSS styles in my custom page template that the About-Us Dashboard Page points to but have entered my RawHTML that I created and tested in a browser prior to placing it into the Page HTML Editor, which is using the RawHTML plugin.

The problem is, on first pasting my HTML code using start raw and end raw tags, all looks fine in preview mode but not in the Visual Editor – all format is lost.

Furthermore, when I edit the text in the Visual Editor, my whole layout is all messed up. Why? Concern here is, I eventually would like my client to do all updates to text but if it jumbles all up, then what’s the point of using WordPress as a CMS?

Don’t get me wrong pls, I think WordPress is great and I really hope I am doing something wrong being a newbie but I would really like to ensure that any changes does not mess up the rest of the page format, which it seems to.

2) Adding and removing images also seem to mess the page format and again don’t understand why? If I have an image aligned to the right and am using WordPress Image uploader to replace an existing image, again the page format is messed up.

The only way around this, is to have external html files where you make the changes and then copy and paste this back into the Page HTML Editor, which again defeats the purpose.

Can someone pls help me with this as my client has given me all the content they initially require in MS Word format but I am having alot of difficulties getting the format correct based on above issues.

Bottom line is, I want my client to update all content in all my WP Pages but I also want to make sure that if he does (text and/or images) does not break the page formatting.

Thanks.