@charset "UTF-8";
/* CSS Document */

body  {
	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;
	font-size: 100.1%;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background: url(backgroundimageforwriting.jpg)  top left repeat-x;
	background-color: #b0c5e5;
}
#container #mainContent h1 {
	color: #000000;
	margin-top: 1em;
}
#container #mainContent h1 {
	margin-top: 0.5em;
	margin-right: 1em;
}
#sidebar  li  {
	position: absolute;
}
#sidebar1 ul   {
	font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", Calibri, helvetica, "sans serif";
	font-size: 1em;
	color: #0a2556;
	list-style-type: none;
	padding: 0;
	margin-left: 0;
	line-height: 2em;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	display: block
}
#container {
	width: 780px;  /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
	background: #FFFFFF;
	margin: 0 auto;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
	background-color: #b0c5e5;
} 
#header { 
	height: 172px;
	background: #DDDDDD url(bannerforwriting.jpg) no-repeat;
	padding: 0 10px 0 20px;  /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
} 
#header h1 {
	margin: 0; /* 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;
}
#sidebar1  {
	float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
	width: 215px; /* 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: #EBEBEB; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
	background-color: #9c866f;
	font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", Calibri, helvetica, "sans serif";
	list-style: none;
	font-size: 1.2em;
	color: #0a2556;
	position: relative;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	display: block
}
#sidebar1 a:link, #sidebar1 a:visited {
	text-decoration: none;
	color:#0a2556;
	border-bottom:solid 1px #354d79;
	display: block	
}
#sidebar1 a:hover, #sidebar1 a:active {
	text-decoration: none;
	background:#5c4630;
	color:#7e92b8;
	display: block
}
#sidebar1 li a.current, #sidebar1 li a.current.hover, #sidebar1 li a.current.active {
	cursor: default;
	color:#b89f85;
	background:#355081;
	display: block
}

#mainContent {
	margin: 0 0 0 215px; /* 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 20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
	color: #000000;
	font-size: 1.2em;
	font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", Calibri, helvetica, "sans serif";
	display: block;
	text-decoration: none;
} 
#mainContent h2 {
	color: #000000;
} 
#mainContent ul {
	text-decoration: none;
	list-style-type: none;
}
a:link {
color: #420b46;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
color: #420b46;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
color: #420b46;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
color: #8e3e86;
text-decoration: none;
}
#footer {
	padding: 0 10px 0 20px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
	color: #0d3174;
	background-color: #b0c5e5;
	font-size: 1.2em;
	font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", Calibri, helvetica, "sans serif";
}
#mainContent img {
padding: 1.2em;
} 
#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: 10px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
	text-align: right;
}
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
	float: right;
	margin-left: 8px;
}
.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
	float: left;
	margin-right: 8px;
}
.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;
}