I think all your problems would be solved if you stopped designing fixed width sites. Or at least most of your problems. I make sites that look fine from 640px to 1280px. I use max-width to keep them from getting too wide. I never have to think twice about what resolution to support. The hard part is dealing with IE, since it doesn't do max-width. Sometimes I give IE a fixed width, and sometimes I use Javascript to force max-width on it.
A couple of articles on dealing with large images in liquid layouts: http://www.clagnut.com/sandbox/imagetest/ http://www.michelf.com/weblog/2005/liquid-image/ -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************