Resizing browser windows to suit your monitor

I have created a website using both Dreamweaver 4 and Importing Fireworks 4.

How can I make my site resize to fit the browser window viewing it. The pages look great on my monitor; however, when I view with a larger monitor, the page looks very small in comparison to the monitor with a lot of screen space around it.

There's no automatic, or even simple, way to do this, unfortunately, especially once the page is constructed

If you want pages that conform to the browser window, the best approach is to design them that way from the start, using what is sometimes called a "liquid page design". This is commonly done using tables set to percentage widths, and there's an excellent tutorial on it here: http://www.jshook.com/flexible_pages/ - highly recommended.

It can also be done with CSS positioning - here's an example - http://dreamweaverfever.com/ - but that'll take a much more considerable learning curve, as well as some thought to dealing with browsers that don't support CSS well. However, this is probably the direction we all should be heading.

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