Scaling laptop to large monitor

hey there,
i'm working off of my laptop and hooking it up to my 30" monitor. the stuff looks proportioned on laptop; but when dragged onto the larger monitor, every thing is too large. where can i scale this? went into sysetmt preferences as well as "view." can it be not in porportion?
Thanks.
c

This is under specs.
Extended desktop and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 1920 x 1200 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors
You will also need a mini dvi to whatever your monitor uses adapter.
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> Should I have the option for people to view the site on
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> Hello
>
> I have built a very straight forward web site to show
around 200 images
> for an
> artist. The site is a very simple HTML/CSS and my
question is about
> whether I
> should offer an option for viewers to view on larger
monitors?
>
> Because the design/content is so minimal, on a very
large monitor (I Don't
> have one), I imagine the page content could look sparse.
I obviously want
> the
> site to be appropriate for as wide an audience as
possible and want the
> images
> to be large enough to get a good look at them without
bursting off the
> screen.
>
> However, apart from wide appeal, a significant target
audience say,
> galleries
> and other image makers, will probably have high-end kit
for their browsing
> and
> probably, have huge monitors. so my question is:
>
> Should I have the option for people to view the site on
a large monitor?
>
> If it's a good idea, I imagine that I could just
duplicate the site and
> upsize
> all the images. And then change my CSS to make the text
etc a bit bigger.
> I
> don't imagine a style-switcher is the way to go because
that would not
> deal
> with the image sizes.
>
> I would really welcome any advice.
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin
>
> I know this isn't strictly a DW question but I don't
know where else to go
> with it?
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