@charset "utf-8";
body  {
	font: 100% 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;
}
article, aside, figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, nav, section, summary {
	display: block;
}
#container { 
	width: 100%;
	/*margin: 0 auto;  the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page if needed */
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
}  
header {
	/*padding: 0 10px;  /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
	display: block;
	margin: -8px;
	padding: 2em;
	background-color: #009900;
	background-image: url(assets/banner_01.jpg);
	height: 150px;
	background-position: left;
} 
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 */
	font-style: italic;
	color:#FFF;
}
header .location {
	font-style: italic;
	color:#FFF;
	float: right;
}
header .dateline {
	font-style: italic;
	color: #fff;
}
.main_nav {
	position: relative;	
	left: 350px;
	top: 50px;
}
.button {
	background: #009933;
	color: #000;
	height: 20px;
	width: 75px;
	float: left;
	text-align: center;
	margin-bottom: 20px;
	margin-left: 15px;
	padding: 5px 1em 5px 1em;
	font-weight: bold;
	border-width: 4px;
	border-style: solid;
	border-top-color: #DFDFDF;
	border-right-color: #666;
	border-bottom-color: #333;
	border-left-color: #858585;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.buttons li {
	display: inline;
	list-style: none;
	padding-right: 20px;
}
#sidebar1 {
	float: left;
	top: 124px;
	left: 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 10px 10px;
	width: 190px;
	min-height: 1500px;
	background-color: #eee;
	font-size: small;
}
/* #sidebar2 {
	height: 250px;
	float: right; 
	width: 12em; 
	background: #fff; 
	padding: 0px; 
} */
.border {
	border-bottom-color:#000;
	border-top-width: thin;
	border-right-width: thin;
	border-bottom-width: thin;
	border-left-width: thin;
	border-bottom-style: solid;
	width: 180px;
}
ul {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
}
ul li {
	margin: 15px;
	padding: 0px;
	height: 20px;
	font-size: 15px;
}
#sidebar1 h3, #sidebar1 p, #sidebar2 p, #sidebar2 h3 {
	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;
}
#mainContent {	
    text-align: center;
 	margin: 0 0em 0 12em; /* the right margin can be given in ems or pixels. It creates the space down the right side of the page. */ 
	padding: 0 2em 0 2em; /* padding here creates white space "inside the box." */
	background-color: #996;
} 
#mainContent .image_01 {
	padding: 10px;
}
#mainContent .image_02 {
	padding: 10px;
}
#mainContent .image_03 {
	padding: 10px;
}
.return {
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 24px;
}
.previous {
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 24px;
	position: absolute;
	left: 290px;
}
.next {
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 24px;
	position: absolute;
	right: 290px;
}	
footer { 
 	text-align: center;
	padding: 0 10px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
	background:#6699ff;
} 
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;
}
.search {
	float:right;
	color: #FFF;
}
.menu {
	position:absolute;
	margin-left: 300px;
	top: -10px;
}
#main_menu {
	text-align: center;
	background-color: #999;
	padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
	
}