body {
font: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #666666;
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;
font-size:16px;
background-color: #000000;
}

.index #container {
width: 60em;  /* this width will create a container that will fit in an 800px browser window if text is left at browser default font sizes */
background: #FFFFFF;
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. */
}
.index #header { 
background: #ffffff; 

} 
.index #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: 0 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
}
.index #mainContent {
padding:1em 10px 0 10px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
background: #ffffff;
}
.index #footer {
font: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
padding: 0 10px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
background:#3399FF;
font-size:14px;
clear:both;
} 
.index #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 */
}

.index #footer a:link {
color:#000000;
text-decoration: none;
}

.index #footer a:hover {
color:#ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
}
.index #footer a:visited {
color:#000000;
text-decoration: none;
}

.tbg {
background-color: #3399FF;
}

.links {
color:#000;
font-size:16px;
text-decoration: none;
}

.links a:hover {
color:#FF0000;
text-decoration: none;
}

.nav {
font-size:14px;
color:#000000;
font: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
text-decoration: none;
}

.nav a:link {
color:#000000;
text-decoration: none;
}
.nav a:hover {
color:#ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
}

.nav a:visited {
color:#000000;
text-decoration: none;
}

.nav a:active {
color:#ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
}

.red {
color: #FF0000;
}

.white 
{
color: #FFFFFF;
}

.welcome {
font:Forte;
font-size:26px;
}

/*                 */
/* New CSS classes */
/*                 */

.navigation
{
    float:left;
    width:200px;
    padding:10px;
}

.content
{
    float:left;
    width:700px;
    overflow-x:auto;   
}