Formatting with Views
If you're looking for uniformity across the view, I'd go with a teaser view mode on the nodes.  It's under display settings.  In view mode, you can control the length of the text that is trimmed, the size of the image,or whether or not you want field labels, or taxonomy terms showing, etc. In fact you can show a completely different set of fields that weren't visible on the default view mode. The upshot of this is the content will display exactly the same across the entire site without having to re-theme it in a block, in a different view, &amp; so on.