body  {
	font-size:12px;
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background: #ffffff url(../images/bodyBackground.jpg) left top repeat-x;
	margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
	padding: 0;
	text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
	color: #000000;
}
h3 {
	background: url(../images/titleBackground.jpg) left top repeat-x;
	height:31px;
	color:#FFFFFF;
	padding:7px 5px;
	margin:8px 0;
}
.pic {
	float:right;
	margin:0 0 10px 10px;
}
.stretcher p {
	margin:5px;
}
a {
	color:#255da4;
	text-decoration:underline;
}
a:hover {
	color:#255da4;
	text-decoration:none;
}
#container { 
	width: 800px;  /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
	background: #FFFFFF;
	margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
	border-left: 7px solid #fff;
	border-right: 7px solid #fff;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
} 
#header { 
	background: #DDDDDD url(../images/headerBackground.jpg);
	width:800px;
	height:428px; 
} 
#header h1 {
	color:#fff;
	margin: 0 20px; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */
	padding: 10px 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
}
#header span {
	margin:0 20px;
	color:#fff;
}
#sidebar1 {
	float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
	width: 200px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
	background: #faffeb; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
	padding: 10px;
	margin:5px 0;
	border:1px solid #c2d788;
}
#mainContent { 
	margin: 5px 0 5px 220px; /* the left margin on this div element creates the column down the left side of the page - no matter how much content the sidebar1 div contains, the column space will remain. You can remove this margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the #sidebar1 space when the content in #sidebar1 ends. */
	padding: 0 0 5px 10px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
}
#content {
	border:1px solid #4d81c2;
	padding:5px;

} 
#footer { 
	background:#DDDDDD url(../images/footerBackground.jpg) left top repeat-x;
	height:92px;
	text-align:center;
	font-size:10px;
}
#footer a {
	color:#FFFFFF;
} 
#footer p {
	margin: 0; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
	padding: 30px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
}
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
	clear:both;
    height:0;
    font-size: 1px;
    line-height: 0px;
}


#mainMenu { 
	width: 200px; 
}
#mainMenu .tab {
	margin:3px 0;

}
#mainMenu h3 {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
}
#mainMenu ul {
	margin-left: 0;
	padding-left: 0;
	list-style-type: none;
}
#mainMenu a {
	display: block;
	padding: 3px;
	width: 195px;
	background-color: #1b549d;
}
#mainMenu a:link, #navlist a:visited {
	color: #EEE;
	text-decoration: none;
}
#mainMenu a:hover {
	background-color: #aac9f2;
	color: #1b549d;
}