I'd like to have my header ( a .png image ) run completely edge to edge; in print terminology a full bleed. I can see the header the way I want in VSD but when I preview or bublish the site I'm seeing margins on the left and right sides of the screen. Is there any way to work around this?
Thanks - Boyd

Boyd, do you mean like on this site where the blue and dark grey bands continue no matter your screen width? You can do this in VSD.
Below is a sample. Create your header and page background (the sample has a white page body and a footer area). You only need a strip of your bkgrnd, since it will be repeated horizontally. This keeps the file size smaller as well. Make a long enough strip so that you won't see it repeat vertically.
Insert this as your page background, then, under Settings, choose to allow the background to continue beyond page borders
http://callie.coffeecup.com/storage/bckgrnd.jpg

Thanks Paintbrush, I think I get it.
I'll play around with it as you suggest. - Boyd

Boyd, I just made a sample site using this type of background. You can see it here:

http://ccd.coffeecup.com/

So that vertical strip (like in the example above) repeats horizontally to fill the browser window.

I think I've got it where I'm happy, I used your advice but ended up integrating the header into the background as one big piece.
It seems to look okay from this end.
Thanks again for the help, very much appreciated!

The results can be seen here: www.stagecraftfilm.com

I'm seeing a lot of right margin. I'm on 1280x1024
Is this what your after?

http://progrower.coffeecup.com/ribbonheader.html

Pretty much the same as paintbrush.

That's strange, I'm viewing on a 1024 x 768 monitor and it looks fine, I'll go fire up the laptop and have a look on it as well.

I think I just had a thought...Eric are you looking at my business site or my personal site?
I know my personal site ( the one in my signature ) is a bit screwy but the one we're dealing with at the moment is www.stagecraftfilm.com - Boyd

"www.stagecraftfilm.com"

Here's what I'm seeing

It's left-positioned with a lot of blank white space to the right.

If you would take the logo, title and green line off of the background pattern (save it all as a PNG file with transparency), You could use the above method to continue the pattern, no matter the screen width. I'd center the page as well

Then you could put everything back on top of the header pattern area.