A nice default screenrc

.screenrc-main-example

# GNU Screen - main configuration file 
# All other .screenrc files will source this file to inherit settings.
# Author: Christian Wills - [email protected]

# Allow bold colors - necessary for some reason
attrcolor b ".I"

# Tell screen how to set colors. AB = background, AF=foreground
termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'

# Enables use of shift-PgUp and shift-PgDn
termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti@:te@

# Erase background with current bg color
defbce "on"

# Enable 256 color term
term xterm-256color

# Cache 30000 lines for scroll back
defscrollback 30000

# New mail notification
backtick 101 30 15 $HOME/bin/mailstatus.sh

hardstatus alwayslastline 
# Very nice tabbed colored hardstatus line
hardstatus string '%{= Kd} %{= Kd}%-w%{= Kr}[%{= KW}%n %t%{= Kr}]%{= Kd}%+w %-= %{KG} %H%{KW}|%{KY}%101`%{KW}|%D %M %d %Y%{= Kc} %C%A%{-}'

# change command character from ctrl-a to ctrl-b (emacs users may want this)
#escape ^Bb

# Hide hardstatus: ctrl-a f 
bind f eval "hardstatus ignore"
# Show hardstatus: ctrl-a F
bind F eval "hardstatus alwayslastline"

How do implement these changes into screen

After You've updated your ~/.screenrc file, just press (within screen) "ctrl" with "a", then type source ~/.screenrc after a colon, like this - ":source ~/.screenrc" and press "enter"
ctrl-a :source ~/.screenrc <enter>

Indeed, thanks for sharing! Nice layout and colors choice.

Another option for status line, with date and clock:
hardstatus string '%{= Kd} %{= Kd}%-w%{= Kr}[%{= KW}%n %t%{= Kr}]%{= Kd}%+w %-= %{KG} %H%{KW}|%{KY}%101`%{KW}|%D %M %d %Y%{= Kc} %C%A%{-}'

I'm confused. I thought the below code would allow me to scrollback using Shift-PgUp/Down, but instead it cycles me through the windows. Is this cycling the expected behavior?

# Enables use of shift-PgUp and shift-PgDn
termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti@:te@