very early stages

hey thx for ur help guys, ill take all the following into consideration.
btw, is it possible to make my last table, the one w/ the side bar in it, fit to 100% verticlely. kinda like my top one that pixel stretched but instead of a horizontal 100%, a verticle one. ive tried and it doesn't work. anybody get what im saying?
Thanks again!

Gardernerville! I used to live in South Lake, just up the hill from you. It's kind of beautiful looking down on that town from the backside of Heavenly.

You could set that table to height="100%" if you wanted. And that would stretch it up to the top. And if you set a background picture, you could use CSS to keep it from tiling left to right. You could just have it tile vertically.

when i set the table to 100% verticlely it only takes up 1 table row. how would i tile by table background using css?

I liked the site!
Well there are things that I would change but in general I liked it...
Don't scrap it...Just put some more stuff in it...it's a bit plain now...
And about the text on your site...
like deker said...
Don't save your text as a Jpeg. It looks really blurry and bad. Save as GIF instead.
That would really help...