MBP 2011 - Best way to make it behave like Mac Mini ?

I have a 26" NEC monitor I like and use for photo editing. I come from the Windows world. Late last year I bought a Mac Mini, hooked it up to my monitor and was getting used to OS X. Then my mini was stolen.
I recently replaced the stolen mac-mini with a 2011 13" MacBookPro i7 2.7, thinking I could hook it up to my NEC monitor like the mac mini, but I'm finding it's not really like that. It's more of a dual display setup that I'm finding awkward.
How can I make the external monitor be the main screen with dock and menu bar ?
Display settings are kind of primitive in this regard.
I can drag firefox from the MBP screen to the external screen, but the menu bar stays on the MBP. It's kinda weird. Moving the mouse back and forth isn't so fluid due to vast difference in resolution between the two screens.
Then there's the battery issue. If I leave the AC plugged in all the time, I read that isn't a good thing for battery life. It is however, convenient once in a while to pickup the MBP and carry it about the house.
What's the best way to make the MBP behave like a mini?

Thank you for the KB article, it helped.
The key is to have the power AC adapter plugged in on the MBP. Then, when it wakes from sleep after closing the lid the attached display becomes the one and only display with Dock and Menu bar up top. Otherwise, in battery mode, wake from sleep is a complete disaster. This clamshell mode seems to be very stubborn in battery mode. It wakes up, monitor flickers, goes back to sleep. Press a key to wake it up again and it just keeps going in a circle, like ground hog day and I never get to actually use the MBP.

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