body {
  font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
  padding: 2% 4% 4% 4%;
  margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
  background: url(/img/bgPat.png) #DDD;
  color: #036;
  border: 8px solid #036; }
a {
  background-color: transparent;
  color: #600;
}
a:link {
  color: #600;
  text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
  color: #600;
  text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
  color: #600;
  text-decoration: none;
} 
a:hover {
  color: #600;
  background-color: #eee;
  text-decoration: none;
  border-bottom: 1px dotted #036;
}
a:hover img {
  border-bottom: 0px;
}
/* the banner div is the top most section */
#banner {
  color: #036;
  font-size: 2.5em;
  font-weight: bold;
  padding-left: 0px;
  padding-bottom: 10px;
  border-bottom: 2px ridge #600;
}
/* two divs in the middle of the page */
#content {
  /* equal to body padding-right + #links width */
  margin-right: 24%;
}
#links {
  float: right;
  width: 20%;
  padding: 10px;
}
/* the footnotes div is at the bottom */
#footnotes {
  text-align: center;
  margin-top: 0px;
  padding: 5px;
}
.description {
  /* 40% of banner size */
  font-size: 0.4em;
  font-weight: bold;
  padding-left: 30px;
  margin-top: -3px;
  font-style: italic;
}
#container {
}
.blog {
  padding-top: 15px;
  padding-right: 10px;
  padding-bottom: 10px;
}
.blogbody {
  font-weight: normal;
  border-left: 1px dotted #060;
  padding-left: 5px;
}
/* title of entry */
.title {
  font-size: 1.1em;
  color: #000;
}
#menu {
  margin-bottom: 15px;
  text-align: center;
}
.date {
  color: #666;
/* border-bottom: 1px solid #999;
  text-decoration: underline;*/
  margin-bottom: 10px;
  font-weight: bold;
  text-align: right;
}
.posted {
  color: #666;
  margin-bottom: 25px;
}
.side {
  color: #333;
  font-size: 0.9em;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 1.2em;
  padding: 2px;
}
.sidetitle {
  font-size: 11px;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 1.2em;
  padding: 2px;
  margin-top: 0.8em;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  border-bottom: 1px dotted #036;
  text-align: center;
}
.trackback-url {
  color: #666;
  padding: 5px;
  border: 1px dotted #999;
}
.trackback-body {
  color: #666;
  font-weight: normal;
  padding-bottom: 10px;
  padding-top: 10px;
  border-bottom: 1px dotted #999;
}
.trackback-post {
  color: #666;
  font-size: 0.8em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

div.side ul {
  margin-left: 1em;
  padding-left: 0px;
  margin-top: 0px;
  margin-bottom: 0px;
  font-size: 80%;
}

blockquote { 
  padding: 4px;
  background: #eee;
  border-top: 1px solid #999;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #999;
}


/* see http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/05/04/the_q_tag */
q {
  quotes: '\201C' '\201D' '\2018' '\2019';
}

q:before {
  content: open-quote;
}

q:after {
  content: close-quote;
}

q {
  font-style: italic;
}

/*
p>q, li>q {
  font-style: normal;
}
*/

pre {
  font-size: 80%;
}