html {	font-size:100%; }

/* ============= layout ======================= */
body
{
	font-size: 62.5%; /* Resets 1em to 10px */
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
	color: #ccc;
	background-color: #333;
	text-align: center;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
}

#container {
	position: relative;
	width:800px;
	min-height:800px;
	background-color: #3F3F3F;
	margin:0 auto;
	text-align:left;
	font-size: 1.2em;
}
#vertical {
	position:relative;
	float: left;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	width:36px;
	height: 800px;
	background-image:url(/images/vertical.jpg);
	background-position:top left;
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
#main {
	position:relative;
	float:left;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	width:764px;
}
#header {
	position:relative;
	float:left;
	width:764px;
	height:215px;
	background-image:url(/images/header.jpg);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;	
	clear: right;
}
#topbar {
	position:relative;
	float:left;
	margin: 0;
	width:764px;
	height:45px;
	background-image:url(/images/topbar.jpg);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	clear:both;
}
#navbar {
	position:relative;
	float:left;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 10px 10px;
	width: 150px;
}
#content {
	position:relative;
	float:left;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 10px 20px;
	width:530px;
}
#footer
{
	position:relative;
	float:left;
	text-align:center;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	padding-left:240px;
}

#height_extender
{
	/* force container height to extend to bottomost element */
	/* use at end of all other elems. */
	position: relative;
	clear: both;
}

.top_items
{
	float:right;
	padding: 2px 65px;
}

/* ====================== HACKS + FIXES ===================== */
a /* hide annoying img link borders in ffox */
{
    outline: none;
}
a img
{
    border:none;
}


/* nb: as ems are supposed to be relative, beware that some browsers will cascade the
font-size % set on the body to all successive elements if you do:
body,td,th,p.form,select,textarea,input ... as in the above.
so that successive, nested items don't get smaller and smaller, you need these workarounds:
*/
td{ font-size: 100%; }
th{ font-size: 100%; }
form{ font-size: 100%; margin:0px; padding: 0px; }
select{ font-size: 100%; }
textarea
{
	font-size: 100%;
	border: 1px solid #999999;
}
input {	font-size: 100%; }
p { font-size: 100%; }
small { font-size: 100%; }
h3 { font-size: 100%; }
body, #content, #gb_form_div { font-size: 100%; }

/* ===================== BASIC APPEARANCE =================== */
form,input,select,textarea
{
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
body,td,th,p
{
	font-size:100%;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 0.8em;
}

#gb_form_div input, #gb_form_div select, #gb_form_div textarea
{
	font-size: 0.8em;
	color:#333333;
}

#footer
{
	font-size: 0.75em;
	color:#9c9c9c;
}

iframe
{
	border: none;
}

.pagettl
{
	font-size: 2em;
	color: #666666;
}


/* ================== LINKS ======================== */
/* basic links */
a:link, a:visited
{
	font-style: normal;
	color: #999999;
	text-decoration: none;
	font-weight: bold;
}
a:hover
{
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #fff;
}

/* ===================== POSTS =================== */
.post_ttl {
	font-size: 100%;
	font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-weight: bold;
	letter-spacing: 0.01em;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
}

.post_ttl a:link, .post_ttl a:hover, .post_ttl a:active, .post_ttl a:visited
{
	font-size: 1.4em;
	color: #99CCFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}

.post_meta, .extra_meta, .commentmetadata
{
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size:0.7em;
}

small
{
	color: #6699CC;
}

/* assuming left aligned images */
.fullpost img {
     margin: 0px;
     padding: 0px;
     margin-bottom: 20px;
}

#navbar ul { margin:0px; padding:0px; }
#navbar li
{
	list-style-type:none;
	margin:0px;
	padding:4px 0px;
}

#navbar ul li a:link, #navbar ul li a:visited, #navbar ul li a:hover
{
	color:#C6E2FF;
	font-size: 1em;
	text-decoration:none;
}

#navbar ul li ul li.page_item a
{
	color:#999999;
	padding-left:10px;
	font-size: 0.8em;
	display: block; /* full-ident on sublinks, not just 1st-line. */
}

#navbar ul li ul li.page_item a:hover 
{
	color:#99CCFF;
	padding-left:10px;
	font-size: 0.8em;
	display: block; /* full-ident on sublinks, not just 1st-line. */
}

/* ============== panels ******************/
.capsule
{
	position:relative;
	float:left;
	width: 525px;
	background-repeat: repeat-y;
	background-image: url(/images/capmid.jpg);
	clear:both;
	padding:0px;
	margin:0px;
}
.capstart
{
	width: 525px;
	height: 25px;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: top;
	background-image: url(/images/capstart.jpg);
	clear:both;
}
.capend 
{
	width: 525px;
	height: 30px;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position:bottom;
	background-image: url(/images/capend.jpg);
	clear:both;
}

/* all content needs to be a tad narrower to make the capsules look right */
.capsule p, .fullpost, .capsule img
{
	padding: 0 20px;
}

/* extra vertical spacing between posts */
.fullpost
{
	padding-bottom: 20px;
}

/* some fun styles */
.caption01
{
	font-size: 100%;
	font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-style:italic;
	letter-spacing: 0.02em;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 2px 0px;
	border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}