body {
	background-color : #F3E3F3;
	color: #603360;
	margin-top: 0;
	margin-left: 0;
	margin-bottom: 0;
	margin-right: 10px;
	padding: 0;				/* for Opera */
}
h1, h2, h3, h4 {
	font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
h1 {
	font-size: 165%;
	margin-bottom: 0;
	color: #603360;
}
h2 {
	margin-top: 3px;	/* visually line up with transparent pixel img on the left! */
	font-size: 120%;
	color: #603360;
}
.menuheader h2 {
	margin-top: 0px;	/* but don't do this in the navigation column! */
	margin-left: 5px;
	padding-top: 0.15em;
	padding-bottom: 0.25em;
	font-weight : 600;
	font-size: 100%;
	color : #FFFFFF;
}
h3 {
	font-size: 110%;
	color: #603360;
}
h4 {
	font-size: 100%;
	color: #8B0000;
}
.menubox h4 {
	margin-left: 5px;
	color: #603360;
}
p, li, label {
	font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.blogcontent p {
	font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
blockquote {
	font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-style: italic;
	color: #000080
}

hr {
	color: #A482A4;
}
hr.hrsmall {
	text-align: left;
	width: 30%;
	height: 1px;
}

.logo, .navbar {
	width: 12em;
	padding-right: 10px;
	padding-left: 5px
}
.navbar {
	vertical-align: top;
}
.title {
	vertical-align: bottom;
}
.sitenav {
	font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	padding-top: 1.2em;
	padding-bottom: 1.2em;
	font-weight: bold;
}
.menubox {
	margin-bottom: 10px;	/* spacing between separate boxes */
	padding-bottom: 5px;
	width: 12em;
	border: 1px solid #A482A4;
}
.menuheader {
	background-color: #A482A4;
	margin-bottom: 0.2em;
}
.menutext {
	text-align: left;
	margin-top: -0.5em;
	padding-left: 5px;
	padding-right: 5px;
}

.lineup {
	height: 1px;				/* cell height for table trick */
}
.blog {
	vertical-align: top;
}
.time {
	margin-bottom: 0;
}
.blogcontent {
	font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	padding-left: 2em;
	padding-bottom: 1em;
}
.postinfo {
	font-style: italic;
	font-size: 80%;
}
.blogitem {
	padding-left: 1em;
}
.footer {
	vertical-align: top;
	margin-top : 0;
	font-size : 70%;
}

.arct {
	border-right : 1px solid #603360;
	border-bottom : 1px solid #603360;
}
.arch {
	font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	border-top : 1px solid #603360;
	border-left : 1px solid #603360;
	text-align: center;
	background-color: #FFEEFF;
}
.arcd {
	border-top : 1px solid #603360;
	border-left : 1px solid #603360;
	text-align: center;
	background-color: #E9D9E9;
}

a:link {
	color: #66429A;
}
a:visited {
	color: #AA33B3;
}
a:active{
	color: #A482A4;
}
a:hover {
	background-color: #FFEEFF;
}

/* ----- styling for special elements ----- */
code {
	display: block;
	padding: 3px;
	font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
	font-size: 85%;
	border: solid 1px #A482A4;
	background-color: #FFEEFF;
	color: #8B0000;
}
var {										/* used for tag and attribute names, to distinguish them from locks of code */
	font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
	background-color: #FFEEFF;
	color: #8B0000;
}
acronym {
	border-bottom: dotted 1px #A482A4;
}

.special {
	/* for special cotent pages */
	margin-left: 20px;
}
.special p {
	margin-right: 20px;
}


/* ---------- forms -------- */
.form {
	margin-bottom: 10px;
}
form {
	padding: 10px;
	background-color: #FFEEFF;
}
form code {
	margin-bottom: 10px;
}
label {
	font-weight: bold;
}
.submit, .submitmedium, .submitlong {
	font-weight : 600;
	font-size : 90%;
	border-style : outset;
	border-color : #E7CFEE;
	height : 1.8em;
	color : #FFFFFF;
	background-color : #A482A4;
}
.submit {
	width : 5em;
}
.submitmedium {
	width : 7.5em;
}
.submitlong {
	width : 10em;
}

.error {
	font-weight: bold;
	font-style: italic;
	color: #CC0000;
}


/* ---------- for spamfighting entries -------- */
.urlenc { color: #0000FF; font-style: italic; }
.ent { color: #8B0000; font-weight: bold; }
.plain { color: #009B01; }
.imglist {
	list-style-type: none;
}