Widgets on pages OR GD places – which to use?

I have a developer working on a website with GeoDirectory – instead of using GD widgets on actual WordPress pages (Ronneby – Restaurant theme) he has chosen instead to use GD Places, which are not pages easily edited and they are going to need to have photos added, info, etc. Did the developer go about this the wrong way? It also went from being a beautiful dynamic site to rather boring when you get into the listings. It will cause me to have to go back to the developer to make corrections/additions/modifications as I cannot write code but am a proficient WordPress user. Any information you can give me will help! I have the PRO version with all add-in of GD.