body {
	background-image: url(http://www.showpage.org/joe/images/BlogBackground.jpg);
	font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	border-width: 0;
}
a {
	color: #7676BC;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
#sidebar-left a:hover, #sidebar-right a:hover {
	color: #000000;
}
td, th, caption {
	font-family: verdana, sans-serif;
	color: #000000;
	font-size: 11px;
}
option, select, textarea, input {
	font-family: verdana, sans-serif;
	color: #4D4D9B;
	font-size: 11px;
	border: solid 1px #F0F0F7;
}


/* header image/graphics */

#header_img {
	position: absolute;
	z-index: 1;
	left: 211px;
	top: 0px;
}


/* blog positioning */

.blogmain {
	position: absolute;
	z-index: 1;
	left: 211px;
	top: 189px;
	background-color: #24244A;
	border-left: solid 5px #3D3D7C;
	border-right: solid 5px #3D3D7C;
	width: 494px;
}
.date {
	font-size: 11px; 
	font-family: verdana, sans-serif; 
	color: #FFFFFF; 
	text-align: center; 
	padding: 10px;
}
.title {
	font-size: 14px; 
	font-family: verdana, sans-serif; 
	border-bottom: solid 1px #FFFFFF; 
	margin-left: 10px; 
	margin-right: 7px; 
	color: #E3E3F2; 
	padding-bottom: 4px;
}
.body {
	font-family: verdana, sans-serif; 
	color: #FFFFFF; 
	font-size: 11px; 
	padding: 5px 25px 5px 25px;
}
.posted {
	font-size: 10px; 
	font-family: verdana, sans-serif; 
	color: #FFFFFF; 
	text-align: center;
}


/* sidebar positioning */

#sidebar-left {
	position: absolute; z-index: 2; left: 15px; width: 170px; top: 25px;
}
#sidebar-right {
	position: absolute; 
	z-index: 1; 
	top: 15px; 
	left: 725px; 
	width: 200px;
}
.sidetext {
	text-align: right; 
	color: #24244A; 
	font-family: verdana, sans-serif; 
	width: 180px;
}
.side-header {
	font-size: 14px;
	font-family: verdana, sans-serif;
	color: #24244A;
	padding-bottom: 3px;
}

.blogbody td {
	color: #FFFFFF;
}

.blogbody img {
	width: 250;
}