deciding the contents page layout ?

This was the original layout I wanted for my contents page, The boxes on the left were meant to be where my contents page featured pictures were going to be placed, I liked the idea first but comparing the boxes with the text the page looked all disorientated. Meanwhile the layout of the text on the right side, also didn't look very organised, Looking at magazines on my genre, there contents pages  had the pictures on the left hand side and the paragraphs of the featured pages on the right hand side. So taking that into account I have kept the boxes idea on the left and Im having the text on the right hand side like the existing magazines have.