body {
  text-align: center; 
  background: #dddddd url(images/background.gif) repeat-y 50% 0;
  font-family:  "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", lucida, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
  font-size: 9pt;
  color: black;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  border: none;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 12pt;
  border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(39,73,115);
}

h3 {
  font-size: 10pt;
  color: rgb(39,73,115);
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0 0 10px 0;
}

 a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

p { 
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0 0 10px 0;
}

div.important {
  border: 1px solid #aaa;
  background: #ddd;
  padding-left: 1em;
  padding-right: 1em;
  padding-top: 0;
  padding-bottom: 1em;
  line-height: 1.6;
  margin: 0;
  margin-top: 0px;
}

.date {
  padding-right: 0.5em;
  border-right: 1px solid rgb(39,73,115);
  color: #555;
}

.poster {
  padding-left: 0.5em;
}

.postinfo {
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0 0 10px 0;
  font-size: 9pt;
}

.item {
  border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(39,73,115);
  margin: 0 0 10px 0;
}

a:link {
  color: rgb(37,50,66);
  font-weight: bold;
}

a:visited {
  color: #529;
  font-weight: bold;
}

a:hover {
  color: #933;
}

#page {
  text-align: left;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 0;
  width: 760px;
  background: white url(images/pagebackground.gif) repeat-y;
  /*position: relative;*/ /* VH: This is the culprit for non-showing background */ /* use this to make the absolute work on the children elem
ent */
  border-left: 1px solid black;
  border-right: 1px solid black;
}

#header {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

#header h1 {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  background: url(images/banner.gif) no-repeat;
  width: 760px;
  height: 100px;
  text-indent: -9000px; /* get it out of the way */
}

#footer {
  background: rgb(99, 132, 173);
  color: #fff;
  font-size: 9pt;
  border-top: 1px solid black;
  border-bottom: 1px solid black;
  padding: 6px 10px 7px 15px;
}

#footer a {
  color:#ffd;
  }

#sidebar h2 {
  margin: 0;
  color: #362c29;
  padding: 5px 20px 5px 0px;
  font-size: 100%;
  font-weight: bold;
}

#sidebar p { 
  margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;
}

#sidebar ul {
  padding: 0px 5px 10px 15px;
  margin: 0;
}

#sidebar li {
  padding: 2px 5px 2px 0px;
  margin: 0;
}

#sidebar a:hover {
  color: #933;
}

#navigation {
  font-size: 9pt;
  background: rgb(99, 132, 173);
  color: #362c29;
}

#navigation ul {
  padding-left: 0;
  margin-left: 0;
  margin-top: 0;
  background: rgb(99, 132, 173);
  color: #fff;
  width: 100%;
  border-bottom: 1px solid black;
  border-top: 1px solid black;
}

#navigation ul li {
  display: inline;
}

#navigation ul li a {
  padding: 0 1em 0 1em;
  border-right: 1px solid black;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em; 
  font-weight: normal;
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #fff;
  /* text-transform: uppercase; */
}

#navigation ul li a:hover {
  background: #D8E0DF;
  color: black;
}

#navigation ul li a:visited {
  color: #fff;
}

#content {
  /*position: relative;*/
}

#sidebar {
  font-size: 8pt;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0px;
  margin-left: 15px;
  margin-top: 130px;
  width: 190px;
}

#main {
  /* position: absolute; */
  margin: 0; /* 20px 20px 0 240px; */
  padding: 0; /*1px;*/
  margin-left: 240px;
  margin-right: 15px;
  /*position: relative;*/
}