body {
	font-family: trebuchet, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	margin:0;
	background-color: #f0f5ff;
	background-image: url(images/blue/background-blue.png);
	background-repeat: repeat;
	background-position: top left;
	color: black;
}

a, a:link, a:visited, a:active, a:hover {
	color:#2964a8;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
	background-color: #f0f5ff;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #d9eff3;
}

h1, h2, h3 { margin: 0; padding: 0; }


/***
 * banner-related styles
 */

#banner {
	background-image: url(images/blue/blogout_blue-right.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: top right;
	width: 768px;
	height: 80px;
}

#banner h1 {
	height: 80px;
	width: 200px;
	background-image: url(images/blue/blogout_blue-left.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: top left;
}

#banner h1 span, #banner h2 { display: none; }


/***
 * main content related styles
 */

#whole {
	width: 768px;
	margin: 25px auto;
	position: relative;
	border: 1px solid #1f517c;
	border-bottom: 5px solid #3f719c;
	background-color: white;
}

#content {
	position: relative;
	background-color: white;
	margin: 0 0 0 200px;
	width: 566px;
	border-left: 1px solid #e4f0fb;
}

#noLinks #content { width: auto; }
#content .blog { background-color: white; }

#content .blogbody {
	font-size: small;
	font-weight: normal;
	line-height: 140%;
	text-align: justify;
	padding: 1.5em;
	border-top: 1px solid #d9eff3;
}

#content .blogbody a { font-weight: bold; }

#content h3.title {
	font-size: 12pt;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #1974a8;
}

#content h2.date { display: none; }

#content div.posted	{
	font-size: x-small;
	text-align: right;
	margin-bottom:15px;
	padding-top: 2px;
}

#content div.posted a { font-weight: normal; }

#content blockquote {
	font-family: verdana, sans;
	padding: 2px 2px 2px 7px;
	background-color: #f0f5ff;
	border-left: 3px solid #d9eff3;
	width: 80%;
	margin: 5px 0px 5px 20px;
	line-height: 2.5ex
}

#content span.monospace {
	display: inline;
	font-family: courier, monospace;
	font-size: 1.2em;
	padding: 0 .2em;
	background-color: #d9eff3;
}

#content form {
	display: block;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 3px 0;
}

div.blogNav { text-align: center; }

/***
 * sidebar-related styles
 */

#links {
	position: absolute;
	left: 0px;
	top: 80px;
	width: 200px;
	font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: black;
	background-color: white;
	padding: 0px;
}

#links .side {
	font-size: x-small;
	font-weight: normal;
	line-height: 140%;
	padding: 8px;
	margin-bottom: 20px;
}

#links .sidetitle {
	font-family: trebuchet, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 10pt;
	text-align: center;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	letter-spacing: .3em;
	border-width: 1px 0px;
	border-style: solid;
	border-color: #e4f0fb;
	margin: 20px 0 0 0;
}

#links .syndicate {
	font-size: xx-small;
	line-height: 110%;
	text-align: center;
	background-color: #f0f5ff;
	margin-top:50px;
	padding: 2px;
	border: 1px dotted #d9eff3;
}

#links .speedlinks {
	font-size: xx-small;
	border-left: 3px solid #d9eff3;
	padding-left: 5px;
	margin-top: 3px;
	background-color: #f0f5ff;
}

#links ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

/* let's hit a big IE bug! dirty workaround for a dirty browser... */
#links ul li { margin: 0; list-style-type: none; border: 1px solid white; }
HTML>BODY #links ul li { border: 0; }
#links ul li a {
	display: block;
	padding-left: 12px;
	background-image: url(images/blue/arrow.png);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: center left;
}
#links ul li a:hover { border: 0; border-right: 4px solid #d9eff3; }


/***
 * comment and trackback related styles
 */

#popup {
	font-family:palatino, georgia, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
	font-size: small;
	font-weight: normal;
	line-height: 140%;
}

.comments-body, .trackback-body {
	padding: 5px;
	margin: 15px;
	background-color: white;
	border: 1px solid black;
}

.comments-post, .trackback-post { font-size: x-small; }

.comments-head, .trackback-url {
	font-weight: bold;
	background-color: #eee;
	border-width: 1px 0px;
	border-style: solid;
	border-color: black;
}

.trackback-url {
	padding:5px;
	font-weight: normal;
}

#banner-commentspop {
	font-size: large;
	font-weight: bold;
	background-color: white;
	padding: 5px;
}