Cory Perry wrote:
 
> I am looking for some info on text resizing. Currently, if you resize
> the text on a site that I am working on, the text expands but the site
> does not expand to accomidate this. Is it because I am using a wrapper
> div that is a fixed size to contain everything? The fonts are all set to
> em's for sizing.

Fixed widths generally aren't very friendly to any text size other than
whatever the author assumed during construction.
 
> I noticed that on http://www.simplebits.com/ (for example) that when you
> resize the text, the site expands to accomidate it. I am trying to

Looks fixed-width to me. :-p

> achieve that same technique. Any help, tips, ideas, or links would be
> greatly appreciated!

Normally for questions about basic layout type someone would point you
to http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssLayouts but fluid layouts
seem to be a missing option on that page. :-( Have a look at these:

http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/widths-em-v-px.html
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/fflinelength.html
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Sites/dlviolin.html
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/fluid_thinking/
http://evolt.org/article/Liquid_Design_for_the_Web/20/15177/index.html
http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_01_02.html
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/accessibility.html
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