I was wondering is there anyway to make a backround resize itself according to the size of the window? and is there anyways I can make my left menu bar extend indefinitley so it just doesn't stop after the end of a few links??? could use some major help here thanks!!

1. You can't make the background resize but you can make it repeat if you want it to.
2. Depending on what the 'bar' actually is you could try adding width="100%" to the code somewhere (table or div etc). A link or the menu bar code could be useful for that question :)