Question about pages that change to fit environment

All,

I'm new to web design and I'm trying to figure out how web sites change
size to fit the environment. How can a web page in a cell phone or pager
look the same on a computer. What is used to make a web page scale?

How is the user environment detected and then displayed?

thx

Clarke wrote:

I'm new to web design and I'm trying to figure out how web sites change
size to fit the environment. How can a web page in a cell phone or pager
look the same on a computer. What is used to make a web page scale?

Good markup, fluid/liquid/anysize design, and media specific style sheets.

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=MediaStylesheets

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