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


body  {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	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: 12px;
}


a:link {
	color:#003399;
}
a:visited {
	color:#003399;
}
a:hover {
color:#ffffff;
text-decoration:none;
}


div#wrapper {
	position:relative;
	margin-left:auto;
	margin-right:auto;
	width:980px;
	height: 100%;
}

#container {
	width: 960px;
	background: #FFFFFF;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
	background-image: url(images/layout/bg.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	margin-top: 60px;
	height:750px;
} 

#container2 {
	width: 960px;
	background: #FFFFFF;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
	background-image: url(images/layout/bg2.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	margin-top: 60px;
	height:800px;
} 


#news #container {
	width: 900px;
	background: #FFFFFF;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
	background-image: url(images/layout/bgpaper.jpg);
	background-repeat: repeat-y;
	margin-top: 80px;
	height:100%;
} 

#news #bgbottom {
	width: 960px;
	background: #FFFFFF;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
	background-image: url(images/layout/bgpaper-bottom.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	margin-top: 80px;
	height:100%;
} 


#writing #container {
	width: 960px;
	background: #FFFFFF;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
	background-image: url(images/layout/bg-writing.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	margin-top: 80px;
} 

#about #container {
	background-image: url(images/layout/bg-about.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	margin-top: 80px;
} 

#contact #container {
	background-image: url(images/layout/bg-contact.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	margin-top: 80px;
} 

#media #container {
	background-image: url(images/layout/bg3.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
} 


#sidebar1 {
	float: left;
	width: 200px; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
	padding: 0px 10px 15px 60px; /* padding keeps the content of the div away from the edges */
}
#sidebar2 {
	float: right; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
	width: 160px; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
	padding: 15px 10px 15px 20px; /* padding keeps the content of the div away from the edges */
}
 #mainContent {
	margin: 0;
	width: 550px;
	float:left;
	}
	
#writing  #mainContent {
	margin: 0;
	width: 600px;
	float:left;
	background-image: url(images/layout/bg-writing-content.gif);
	background-repeat: repeat-y;
	padding: 10px;
	}
	
#media  #mainContent {
	margin: 0;
	width: 600px;
	float:left;
	background-image: url(images/layout/bg-writing-content.gif);
	background-repeat: repeat-y;
	padding: 25px;
	}

 #mainContent {
	margin: 0;
	width: 550px;
	float:left;
	}
	
#about  #mainContent {
	margin: 0;
	width: 600px;
	float:left;
	background-image: url(images/layout/bg-about-content.gif);
	background-repeat: repeat-y;
	padding: 30px;
	}
	
.aboutalign {
	left:684px;
	position:absolute;
}

.mediaalign {
	left:720px;
	position:absolute;
}

.contactalign {
	left:695px;
	position:absolute;
}

.writingalign {
	left:625px;
	position:absolute;
	
}

.newsalign {
	left:586px;
	position:absolute;
}


.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;
}


#left {
float:left;
}

#right {
	float:right;
}



/* Layout */

.logo {
	left:-20px;
	position:relative;
	top:-40px;
	width: 464px;
	float:left;
}

.logo-main {
	left:-20px;
	position:relative;
	top:-40px;
	width: 464px;
}


.news {
	left:100px;
	position:relative;
	top:-20px;
	width:274px;
}

.writing {
	left:35px;
	position:relative;
	top:20px;
}

.about {
	position:relative;
	width:263px;
	left: -20px;
	top: 15px;
}


.media {
	left:-190px;
	position:relative;
	width:230px;
	}

.contact {
	height:173px;
	left:;
	position:relative;
	top: -90px;
	width:230px;
}


#top {
clear:both;
}


#book1 #book2 #book3 #book4 #book5{
background-image:url(images/layout/bg-writing-mid.jpg);
padding:20px
}

#book1 a, #book2 a {
}

.rss-title  a {
color:#000000;
}

.texth3 {
font-size: 140%;
font-weight:bold;
}

h3 a:link{
color:#000000;
}

h3 a:visited{
color:#000000;
}

h3 {
font-size:120%;
}

#copyright {
color:#999999;
font-size:90%;
padding-left:10px;
text-align:left;
}

#copyright a:link{
color:#999999;
}
#copyright a:visited {
color:#999999;
}
#copyright a:hover{
color:#000000;
}