﻿*
{
  /* 
    Defines the main font used throughout the entire site 
  */
  font-family: Arial, Sans-Serif;
    margin-left: 0px;
}

body
{
  /* 
    Clears white space around the body and gives it a dark gray color.
  */
  margin: 0;
  background-color: #cccccc;
}

a
{
  /*
    Clears the underline on normal links, and gives them a purple text color.
  */
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #4628C4;
}

a:hover
{
  /*
    Underlines links when the user hovers the mouse over them.
  */
  text-decoration : underline;
}

h1
{
  /*
    Makes h1 elements smaller than their browser default.
  */
  font-size : 20px;
}

h2
{
  /* 
    Gives h2 elements a different background color and size, 
    and adds a bit of margin at the top to create room between the heading and the preceding element.
  */
  font-size : 14px;
  color : #7773A1;
  margin-top : 10px;
}

#PageWrapper
{
  /*
    Sets the total width for the entire page. Also sets the background-color
    which is used to fill the background of the Sidebar in case the MainContent block is taller than the Sidebar.
    Uses margin: auto to center the entire page in the middle of the browser's window.
  */
  width: 844px;
  background-color: Red; /*#7773A1;*/
  margin: auto;
}

#Header
{
  /*
    Gives the header the same width as the PageWrapper. The height creates some room for the logo
    that is set with the background-image.
  */
  background-image: url(Images/Title2.jpg);
  width: 844px;
  height: 86px;
}

#Header a
{
  /*
    The #Header a is a link nested in #Header. It provides a link back to the homepage.
    The size of the link is the same as the header, so the entire header is clickable.
  */
  width: 844px; 
  height: 86px; 
  display: block;  
}

#MenuWrapper
{
  /*
    The menu spans the page width, right below the header.
    At the top and left a few pixels padding is applied to create some room.
  
  background-image: url(Images/MenuBackground.jpg);
*/
  width: 844px;
  height: 36px;
  padding-top: 7px;
  padding-left: 17px;
}

#MenuWrapper a
{
  /*
    Links in the Menu are white. This gets overriden by styles in chapter 7.
  */
  color: #fff;
}

.MainMenu
{
  /*
    The Menu gets a white border on all four sides.
  */
  border: 1px solid white;
  width: 844px;
  height: 19px;
  background-color : #cccccc;
}

.MainMenu ul li
{
  /*
    Gives the four menu items in the main menu a width of 200px each
  */
  width: 200px;
}

#MainContent
{
  /*
    Defines the main content area. The #MainContent element has a minimum height of 500 pixels, but can grow if necessary.
    The font-size is 80% of its parent element, which in this case comes down to 80% of the font
    the user has specified as the default font in the browser.
  */
  font-size: 0.8em;
  width: 844px;
  border-left: 1px solid white;
  border-right: 2px solid white;
  float: left;
  background-color: red;
  min-height: 500px;
  padding: 10px;
}

#Sidebar
{
  /*
    The Sidebar is positioned to the right of the MainContent area. It gets the same font-size as #MainContent
    and gets a background image called Sidebar.jpg. To ensure the image is visible in (most) browsers
    on a small page, the element gets a minimum height of 500px. This is ignored by IE 6.
  */
  font-size: 0.8em;
  color: White;
  background-image: url(Images/Sidebar.jpg);
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-color: #7773A1;
  width: 142px;
  min-height: 500px;
  padding-top: 10px;
  padding-bottom: 10px;
  padding-left: 20px;
  float: left;
}

#Footer
{
  /*
    The footer is positioned below all other content (yet still within PageWrapper).
    clear: both is used to clear the impact of the float properties used for #MainContent and #Sidebar.
  */
  width: 844px;
  clear: both;
  height: 37px;
  background-color : #BCD1FE;
  color: White;
  text-align: center;
  font-size: 0.7em;
  font-weight: bold;
  line-height: 37px;
}

.Introduction
{
  font-style: italic;
  color: #3e3e3e;
}
