body {
	font: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:14px;
	background-color: #990000;
	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: black;
}

.container {
	width: 780px;  /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
	background-color: white;
	margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
	border: 1px solid black;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
}

.nav {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-weight: bold;
	background-color: #F0F0F0;
	text-align: justify;
	float: left;
	width: 100%;
}

.header {
	background-color: white;
	border-top: 1px solid black;
	border-bottom: 1px solid black;
	clear: both;
}
.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 */
}
.mainContent h3 {
	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: 0px 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
}
.mainContent {
	padding: 0 20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
}
.footer {
	padding: 0 10px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
	background-color: #F0F0F0;
}
.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 */
}

/* ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generic menu settings ~~~~~~~~~~~~ */
.MenuItem, .MenuItem:visited {
  float: left;
  color: black;
  text-decoration: none;
  border:1px solid black;
  margin-left: 6px;
  margin-top: 6px;
  margin-bottom: 6px;
  padding-left: 6px;
  padding-right: 6px;
  padding-top: 1px;
  padding-bottom: 1px;
  background-color: #D0D0D0
}

.CurrentItem, .CurrentItem:visited {
  background-color: #A0A0A0;
}