I'm trying to align text and a pic side by side but I'm not sure of the way to do it. I'm coverting php files to html and I don't know the correct way to align a picture on the left and text on the right in html.

Have you tried these tags:

<align="right">Text.</align>
AND
<align="left"><img src="url"></align>

More info here:
Alignment, font styles, and horizontal rules in HTML documents (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/graphics.html)