Hi, Guys We have a website which is under construction link in the sig. the site is being made in Dreamweaver and in 800 * 600 screen resolution, everything seems to be fine on our pcs and many other but for laptops and few other pcs in which i have seen our site it takes only say 70% of the screen space and the rest 30% is white, are we doing something wrong on our part, what can we do to overcome this problem?
the first problem is you're using tables for it all with pixel values, so it won't resize according to the user's screen resolution. My advice would be to get rid of the tables and use divs with CSS to create your columns/positioning, etc. this way you can use percentage values so that it resizes according to resolutions.
I wouldn't even use percentages. Just use EM for your containers, then set the font size of the body element to a percentage, and set the leading (line-height) accordingly. And just remember, screen resolution is meaningless [link: sitepoint.com].
i don't think its a case of filling up the screen - it can look really horrible when everything stretches across the screen, especially with some of the new laptops. Decide what looks good (I think you have a good layout at the moment) and put in a background to the page. BUT make the image SUBTLE and not overpowering - you can use a repeating image, or a single LARGE image.
I wouldn't use a single large image. It takes forever to download on dialup. And before you say dialup is dead, remember that there are still large parts of the USA that are not wired for broadband, have it priced out of their budget, and/or have to choose between dialup and satellite (which can cost an arm and a leg). Same with some parts of Europe as well.
gree wid ferrari61 add bg image and make main table to center align like this... u can't do better then this bcoz of ur header images.. u can adjust ur font size in percentage but cant images :-P