George, Yes, add somrthing like: width: 760px; or width: 980px; in your #mybody style definition. You want the width a little less than the screen width to allow for the scroll bar. The RootsWeb home page is set up for an 800px width monitor. Most news sites are now set up for a 1024px width monitor. I haven't seen an 800x600 monitor in a long time. The final choice is yours. You might want to check out the PCMagazine Utility, WinSize, http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,57764,00.asp. All it does is add a little box showing the window size to the cursor as you resize a window. It's a lot easier than changing your monitor resolution to see how your page is going to look Jim Rickenbacker ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Waller" <George@waller.org> To: <Rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 1:16 PM Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Designing web pages for 800x600 > Hi all, > Could someone give me a pointer to information on how > to make a web page that fits on a monitor with lower > resolution. A visit to our local library revealed that my > carefully crafted web page is too wide for the screen and > requires scrolling and the text, etc. is huge. On the other > hand, the main RootsWeb page came up just fine. > > At home I changed my monitor to 800x600 and saw right > same problem right here without leaving home. > > Is it something easy like setting width? > > I googled with no luck. > > Help! > Thanks, George