You will quickly see that everything gets smaller as the resolution goes up. That's because the monitor is displaying a larger number of pixels in the same screen space. Most people find everything is too small at 1024 X 768 on a 14 inch monitor, but try it on a 17 inch monitor and you'll find you have tons of screen real estate you can use. On the Web you want as large a resolution as you can get. The larger the resolution, the more you can fit on the screen.
Web pages are almost always too large to fit on one screen.
A larger resolution is better. Under settings, there is a control panel folder with an icon called Display. Double click on the icon. Then click the settings tab to see the current screen resolution. Try changing the resolution to the largest you can, probably 1024 X 768.