The background picture should cover the entire page - so that it will also cover what people see who have a wider screen. The background isn't what you need to worry about - it's the size you have in page properties for the page - length and width - and that you don't put anything outside of the width boudaries, or it will automatically change to wider.

Actually a window of 800 wide means you need a screen width of about 780 - 790 to completely get rid of sideways scroll.

You shouldn't have any downward scroll at 600 deep - but downward scroll isn't as important as side to side scroll. And it also depends on your target market. I believe totally that some websites have to stay in the 800 width - but some of us are able to come out of it successfully - but very carefully -

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