I am working a lot with screen, especially to get to remote hosts and do many operations at once.
The thing that was irritating me a lot, was the fact that I had to set the titles of windows manually after logging in via ssh.

I have found a method to overcome this problem though. Firstly, you have to put this line in your ~/.bashrc file.

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033k$HOSTNAME\033\\"'

Secondly, to get a nice status bottomline when you start screen, you have to set it in ~/.screenrc. I am using this set of customizations:

# UTF-8 everywhere
defutf8 on

# disable Ctrl-S/Ctrl-Q "flow control"
defflow off

# skip intro
startup_message off

# detach on disconnect
autodetach on

# use regular audible bell
vbell off

# use backtick for prefix key instead of Ctrl-A
#escape ``

# print wackier status messages
nethack on

# restore window contents after using (e.g.) vi
altscreen on

#fancy statusbar
#shelltitle "$ |bash"
hardstatus alwayslastline '%{= kg}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{= kw}%?%-Lw%?%{=b kR}(%{W}%n*%f %t%?(%u)%?%{=b kR})%{= kw}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{Y}%l%{g}]%{=b C}[ %d %M %c ]%{W}'

Nothing better than a screenshot huh? Ok, here you are, THE RESULT: