Safari - Making Webpages Text Appear Full Screen

Made this posting in a different link - thought I would re-post as new thread...
Hello, new to this forum. I am having difficulties with my safari window settings. I own an ibook G4 14" and I recall when I first set it up that certain webpages would not display in the full window of safari after I draged the bottom triangle to full screen. Eventually I was able to get all sites to work full screen (ie. the text spreads across the whole screen - left to right) but I can't recall how.
Now I just purchased a 15" MacBook Pro (having sleep problems and hissing, but that is another story) and now I can't get the sites to work. For example www.soccernet.com only displays on the left side of my screen (whole right side is blank) - on my ibook it is full screen.
Can someone advise as to how this can be changed.
Many thanks

Thanks for all of the replies. Is there a way to
override the fixed width of some sites? It seems a
waste of my screen size if I can only view a portion
of the screen.
You are not seeing only part of the screen, the screen you are viewing it on it just bigger.
Imagine you have a webpage that is 800 pixels wide. You then view it on two monitors; one that is 800 pixels wide, and another that is 1600 pixels wide. On the 800 pixel monitor, the webpage will take up the whole width of the screen, but on the 1600 pixel monitor, it will only take up half the width of the screen.
The only way around it would be to lower the resolution of your display (System Preferences > Display), but I wouldn't recommended it as you will be losing a lot of display space.

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