I don't see any strange characters on the page. Could it be you're using a text you don't have on your computer, and thus it doesn't show right on your computer?
As to the html - you said you saved it as html - that's completely different from the URL for the page. When you save the page, it's simply with the name - for example if you name a page home, you save it as home. If it's not the index page, the url woud be
www.yourdomainname.com/home.html - that's where the html comes into play- and that's only if you saved the page as an html page (there is also the php option, for example).
As to the images not showing - are they named properly - and is the path to them on your computer right? So that when you published, BV could find and publish them to your site?