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: left; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
	color: #152886;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 14px;
	background-color: #999999;
}


.page #container {
	width: 58em;  /* this width will create a container that will fit in an 800px browser window if text is left at browser default font sizes */
	background: #FFFFFF;
	margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
	border: 1px solid #000000;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
} 
.page #header {
	padding: 0 10px;
	background-image: url(../Images/header.jpg);
	height: 120px;
	background-color: #152886;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: center;
} 
.page #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;
}


.page #sidebar1 {
	float: left;
	width: 12em; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
	background: background
: url(../Images/css-gradient.gif) 0% 0% repeat-x;; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
	padding: 0px 0;
	height: 700px;
	background-image: url(../Images/menu_gradient.jpg);
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
.page #sidebar1 h3, .twoColumn #sidebar1 p {
	margin-left: 10px; /* the left and right margin should be given to every element that will be placed in the side columns */
	margin-right: 10px;
}


.page #mainContent {
	margin: 0 1.5em 0 13em; /* the right margin can be given in ems or pixels. It creates the space down the right side of the page. */
} 
.page #footer {
	padding: 0 10px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
	background:#DDDDDD;
	font-size: 12px;
} 
.page #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 */
}

/* Miscellaneous classes for reuse */
.floatright { /* 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;
}
.floatleft { /* 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;
}
 
 .big_heading {
	font-size: 24px
}
.sub_heading {
font-size: 16px
}

.tip {
	font-weight: bold;
	background-color: #DDD;
}

A:link {
	text-decoration: underline;
	color: #152886;
}

A:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
	color: #0000CC;
}

A:visited {
	color: #999999;
}