I see your image, but what do you mean that you want it expanded? The image is just 310px wide, which is what is showing, so what is it you want to happen?

i want it like CC's header......across the whole site

http://www.christinecarclub.net/index.php

Their image is just hugenormous. I wouldn't recommend it.

I wouldn't recommend that either. But, if that is what you want, then you need to use a photo editor and create a big huge logo like that one.

k. thanks. How would i go about changing the header background color to black and make it expand the whole header? When i tried it the header background color did not expand the whole length

notice top left hand corner:

You have an image set for the background:
images/css/bckg_page.png

get rid of that and just leave the color for the header_background

got rid of it in my root however, did not work.

You also left the background color at #333333 instead of black.

lynne, thx for the response got it to work...thx for all your help :)