RE: My site looks cramped at 800 x 600

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I did an examination of your html code and found these errors:

At the very top of the page:
<table border="0" width="100%">
    <tr><td>&nbsp;
                <td>image.gif
                </td>
                <td align="right">images.gifs spaces links
                     <table width="100%"> 
                          <tr><td align="right">Shopping Cart Totals:<br>
                                 </td>
                          </td> <!-- This should be </tr> 
                     </td> <!-- This should be </table>
                 </tr> <!-- This should be </td> 
           </table> <!-- This should be </td>
     </tr>
</table>

and at the very bottom of the page:

    </td> <!-- No Parent Tag
  </tr> <!-- No Parent Tag
</table> <!-- No Parent Tag
<!-- footer_eof //-->

I spent a few minutes to create the entire page with only very basic info in each table cell. The page draws fine with the errors in but it draws better with the errors fixed.

I gotta tell you I have never seen so many tables inside tables before. :shock: If you take the stripped down model of this page and put a "1" in all the table borders the thing looks like a topographic map. :) 

Your page as of this writing still does not give my browser a horizontal scroll bar. Must be something to do with the javascript because the stripped down model I made does have a horizontal scroll bar. :? 

At 1024x768 it looks crowded. At 800x600 only about 2/3 of the page shows on screen.

My suggestion:
Reduce the width of the cell heading background image. It looks like they are about 200+ pixels wide. You could probably reduce the height too because the heading text is dark and large it would be ok to have it display on top of the power cord dipicted. Or change the type size to match that in the text "Log In Here". Best bet IMO: change all font to that in the Information links. Too many typestyles on a page.

Anyway that's my 2¢ worth
Emmett