body  {
	font: 90% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background: #666666;
	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;
}
#container { 
	width: 1000px;  /* 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: 1px solid #000000;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
} 
#header { 
	background:#F9F9F9 none repeat scroll 0 0;
	border-bottom:3px dashed #F3F3F3;
	color:#888;
	font-family:georgia;
	font-size:1.6em;
	letter-spacing:10px;
	padding:15px 10px 0 5px;	
} 

#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; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
	text-indent: -100000 !;
	background-image: url('images/logo.gif');
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	height: 114px;
	width: 30%;
	float: left;
}

#header #subscribe {
	width: 50%;
	height: 114px;
	float: left;
}

#subscribe form input {
	width: 220px;	
	letter-spacing: 1px;
}

#subscribe form input.button {
	width: auto;
}

form {
	
}

form input {
	border:2px dashed #D0D0D0;
	height:22px;
	padding-left:5px;
	padding-top:5px;
	color: #555;
	font-style: italic;
	background-color: #fff;
}

form input:hover {
	background-color: #fff;
	color: #333;
	border: 2px solid #D0D0D0;
}

form input:focus {
	font-style: normal;
}

form input.button {
	background-color: #F9F9F9;
	border:0 none;
	border-bottom: 3px #D0D0D0 solid;
	font-weight:bold;
	height:32px;
	cursor: pointer;
	font-style: normal;
}

form input.button:hover {
	border-bottom: 3px #B4B4B4 solid;
}

#header #subscribe p {
	font-size:95%;
margin-top:10px;
}

#sidebar1 {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	float:left;
	width:146px;
}

#mainContent { 
	margin: 0 0 0 150px; /* 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 */
} 

#sidebar1 a, #sidebar1 a:visited {
	color: #fff;
	text-decoration: none;
}

#sidebar1 a:hover {

}

#sidebar1 .sidebarItem {
	margin-top:20px;
	padding:15px 10px 15px 20px;
	background:#666666 none repeat scroll 0 0;
}

#sidebar1 .ad {
	padding: 10px 0;
	height: 109px;	
}

#sidebar1 .ad p {
	margin:0;
	padding:0 0 5px 0px;
}

#sidebar1 .ad img {

}

#newsItemsHolder {
	width: 100%;
	font-family:Georgia;
	float: left;
}

.newsItems {
	background-color:#F8F8F8;
	border:1px solid #CCCCCC;
	display:block;
	float:left;
	margin:0 6px 25px;
	padding:10px;
	width:29%;	
}

#mainContent h1 {
	color:#555555;
	font-family:Georgia;
	font-size:2em;
	font-weight:normal;
	letter-spacing:3px;
	text-decoration:underline;
}

.newsItems img {
	border: 0;
	padding-right: 8px;
	padding-bottom: 8px;
}

.newsItems h2 {
	background-color:#F0F0F0;
	display:block;
	font-size:1.4em;
	font-style:italic;
	font-weight:normal;
	margin-top:0;
}

.newsItemFirst {
	
}

.newsItemFirst h3 {
	font-size:0.8em;
font-weight:normal;
}

.newsItemRest {
	margin-top: 15px;
}

.newsItemRest ul {
	padding:0 0 0 15px;
}

.newsItemRest ul li {
	list-style-type: disc;
	padding-bottom:10px;
}

.newsItemRest ul li a, .newsItemRest ul li a:visited  {
	color:#333333;
	font-size:0.75em;
	text-decoration:none;
}

#mainContent label, #mainContent input, #mainContent textarea, #mainContent select {
	margin-top: 8px;
}
#mainContent label {
	display: block;
	float: left;
	clear: left;
	width: 120px;
	padding: 5px 0 4px;
}

#mainContent input, #mainContent textarea, #mainContent select {
	background-color: #FBFDFF;
	border: 1px solid #DDD;
	clear: right;
	color: #444444;
	display: block;
	float: left;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
	padding: 5px 3px;
	width: 233px;
	height:16px;
}

#mainContent input.button {
	height: 28px;
	width: auto;
}

#mainContent input:focus, #mainContent textarea:focus, #mainContent select:focus {
background-color: #F8F8F8;
}

#mainContent select {
	width: 158px;
	padding-left: 0;
	height: 28px;
}

#mainContent select.allowRight {
	clear: none;
	margin-right: 8px;
	width: 75px;
}

#mainContent.textbar {
	padding-right:3px;
	border-left:6px solid #EEEEEE;
}



a, a:visited {
	color: #333;
}

a:hover {
	color: red;
}

.newsItemRest ul li a:hover {
	color: red;
}				
				
#footer { 
	padding: 0 10px 0 20px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
	background:#DDDDDD; 
} 


#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 */
}
.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;
}