for you rodw, I shortened the width. It should be 970px now.
It's just been one of those things: wait to get it perfect or get it done. It's probably not great on a mobile phone either but I haven't had time to tackle that.
It's just been one of those things: wait to get it perfect or get it done. It's probably not great on a mobile phone either but I haven't had time to tackle that.
I'm still getting the scroll bar. There may be other reasons as well, but it looks like your header image[1] is 1016 pixels wide. I tried reloading without cache, but it is possible I'm getting an old version somehow.
I'm not sure how wide the scrollbar/window chrome typically are but I think I'd allow a 20 pixel buffer at minimum (i.e. 996 width). Personally, I'd probably allow a 40+ pixel buffer just to be safe, but I in practice I just use the 960px width that 960.gs and others popularized. 64 pixels might be a little generous, but it does allow the page a little breathing room even on 1024 monitors.
1024 might be becoming a rare screen size (I don't know either way), but the vast majority of the sites I visit work at 1024 without horizontal scrolling. (A bigger problem for me is the 600px height. Even at full screen the modal popups some websites use are off-screen. I know how to scale and/or drag the window to work around that, but I'm sure most users don't.)
[1] http://s3.amazonaws.com/solarhost/21/assets/57/header.png