html {
	height:100%;
}

body  {
	font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background-image:url(images/background_pattern.gif);
	background-repeat:repeat;
	background-color: #d9d9d9;
	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;
}

h2 {
	font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size:1em;
/*	color:#004b8d;*/
	color:#0074d9;
	font-weight: lighter;
}

p {
	font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", "Lucida Grande", Verdana, sans-serif;
	font-size:0.7em;
	color:#000;
}



#outer_border {
	position:relative;
	width: 802px;  /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
	margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
	height:auto;
	z-index:100;
}

.thrColFixHdr #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: 1px solid #000000;
	border-right: 1px solid #000000;
	border-top: 1px solid #000000;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
} 
.thrColFixHdr #header { 
	background: #DDDDDD; 
	background-image: url(images/header_full.jpg);
	width: 800px;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	height: 264px;

} 

.thrColFixHdr #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: 0px 0 0 15px; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size:4em;
	letter-spacing:-3px;
	font-weight:normal;
	
}

.thrColFixHdr #header h1 a{
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#000;
}

.thrColFixHdr #header h3 {
	display:none;
}


#header_menu {
	font-size: 0.8em;
	position:absolute;
	right:0;
	top:0;
}

#header_menu ul {
	list-style:none;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;

}

#header_menu li{
	padding-right:10px;
	float:left;
	margin:2px 15px 0 0;
	border-right:1px #375D80 solid;
}

#header_menu li+li+li {
	border-right:none;
}

#header_menu li a {
	text-decoration:none;
	color: #375D80;
}

#header_menu li a:hover {
	color:#7CA9DE;
	text-decoration:underline;
}

.thrColFixHdr #sidebar1 {
	float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
	width: 120px; /* 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: #E1E6FA; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
	padding: 35px 10px 15px 0px; /* padding keeps the content of the div away from the edges */
}

#sidebar1 ul {
	list-style:none;
	padding:0;
	margin:0;
}

#sidebar1 li {
	background:url(images/menubutton.gif) no-repeat;
	height:29px;
	margin:0;
	padding:5px 0 0 0;
	width:auto;
	text-align:center;
}

#sidebar1 li a {
	text-decoration:none;
	font-size:0.9em;
	margin:0;
	color: #375D80;
}

#sidebar1 li a:hover {
	color:#7CA9DE;
}

.thrColFixHdr #sidebar2 {
	float: right; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
	width: 160px; /* 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 */
	padding-top: 15px;
	padding-right: 10px;
	padding-bottom: 15px;
	padding-left: 20px;
	margin-right: 30px;
}
.thrColFixHdr #sidebar2 p{
	color: #375D80;
}

.thrColFixHdr #mainContent {
	padding: 40px 40px 20px 30px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
	float: right;
	width: 585px;
	background-color: #E1E6FA;
	min-height:400px;
	margin-bottom: 5px;
	
} 
/* lists in posts or pages so they will have same formatting as the <p>*/
#mainContent ul {
	font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", "Lucida Grande", Verdana, sans-serif;
	font-size:0.7em;
	color:#000;
	list-style:decimal;
}

#mainContent ul li {
	margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}

.thrColFixHdr #footer { 
	padding: 0 10px 0 20px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
	background-image:url(images/footer-background1.png);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	height:50px;
} 
.thrColFixHdr #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: 5px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
	text-align:center;
}
.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;
}