body  {
	font: 85% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background: #666666;
/*  background-image:url(../images/red_funky_lines.gif);
  background-repeat: repeat;*/
	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: 780px;  /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
	background: #CB2026;
	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. */
  padding: 0;
} 

#header {
  padding: 0;  /* 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. */
  margin: 0;
/*  background-image:url(../images/Red_Pen_Logo_780x240.gif);
  height: 240px;
  width: 780px;*/
  background-image: url(../images/Red_Pen_Logo_500x171.gif);
  height: 180px;
  width: 780px;
  background-color: #FFFFFF;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  border-bottom: 15px solid black;
} 

#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 */
}

#sidebar1 {
	float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
	width: 250px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
  margin: 0;
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  padding: 0;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

#sidebar1 ul {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style-type: none;
  display: block;
}

#sidebar1 ul li {
  font-size: 115%;   
  padding: 10px 0 10px 25px;
  margin: 0;
  display: block;  
}

#sidebar1 ul li a {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

#sidebar1 ul li a:hover {
  text-decoration: underline;
  color: #CCCCCC;
}

#sidebar1 ul li.selected {
  background-color: #FFFFFF;
  border-right: solid thin #666666;
  color: #666666;
}

/*#sidebar1 ul li.selected a {
  color: #666666;
}*/

#mainContent { 
	margin: 0 0 0 250px; /* 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: 20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
  background-color: #FFFFFF;
  min-height: 500px;
} 

#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 */
  font-size: 85%;
  text-align: right;
}

.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;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 150%;
  font-weight: bold;
  border-bottom: solid #CB2026 medium;
  padding-bottom: 3px;
}

a {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #CB0000;
}

a:hover {
  text-decoration: underline;
} 

ul.portfolio_headings {
  list-style-type: none;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

ul.portfolio_headings li {
  font-weight: bold;
  padding-top: 10px;
}

ul.portfolio_samples {
  list-style-type: square;
}

ul.portfolio_samples li {
  font-weight: normal;
  padding-top: 3px;
}