no interest? or just no one there who is responsible for the HP?

well, basically i would start with giving the hompage a ceartain dimension. havin it sticking all over the screen doesnt look very nice. This would be a design point. for compatibility you'd have to simply try out in different browsers (and try out different things in the stylesheet).

where would i get the source-dara from to edit the page? whom should i sent the finished thing to?

see you tarvo

If it is possible, you could make CSS based switching. I like it the way it is, so I can read the website at about 1600x800px and get lots of information at one view. I particularly don't like websites limiting the useful area to 800-1000px width.

It is possible to have nice design and variable layout. Have a look at Heise Telepolis ( http://www.heise.de/tp ) to see what I'm talking about. The bad way would be something like the Heise website itself ( http://www.heise.de ) which limits the visible, useful area to about 900px.

Just IMHO, though...

Tarrei wrote: i have a 26" screen and the homepage is defininitely to wide to really get the information presented. if the lines are too long it is usually harder to read.

I can really recommend you to install a window manager! Your distribution should have several. I use KWin and it works.