If you open your page in a text editor and look close to the top you will see the <body> tag. Yours reads: </head> <body style="background-image: url(wallpaper_1280x1024_1393.png);"> Some of the width comes from the size of your background. I think any graphics editor should let you resize to something smaller. Say 900 by something. For my money I would trim off the right hand side so the watermark is gone first. You can always give them credit at the bottom of the page in your footer. Also, if you look down a bit further you will see: <br><br><br><br><table style="background-color: rgb (255, 204, 153); width: 75%; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" border="20" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153); text-align: center;"><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big> Colfax County, Nebraska</big></big></big><br><big> Trails to the Past</big></big></big></big></big> </big></td></tr></tbody></table><br><br><br><br> <div style="text-align: center;"> Every "<big>" you see makes the text one size larger. Instead of "<big>/</big>" you you could use <h1> and </h1>. On 10/26/2011 10:22 AM, Jen Baldwin wrote: > Thanks, all, for the feedback - it is greatly appreciated. > > Gail - the AVA7 is the credit for the background pattern. > Ray - not really sure how to fix the formatting for a larger screen... any > suggestions? Pretty new to this, so any assistance would be great. Would you > mind looking at my Summit County, CO site also to see if you have the same > issues? http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cosummtp/ > Billie - same to you... would you suggest less graphics, smaller photos > or...? > > I think at times my enthusiasm for the project gets in the way of my common > sense, and I tend to over do it. I've been trying to keep my sites pretty > low key to appeal to the majority of audiences. > > Will fix the type-o right away! My fingers tend to go faster than my brain > sometimes. Proofread all you want, but it always helps to have someone else > look over the work. > > Again, thanks to all for the help. Have a great day! > (We got about 5 inches of snow last night and its still coming, so I'm > settling in for a long day at my computer!) > > ~ Jen > -- "A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George Washington _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._