@charset "UTF-8";
body  {
	font: 100% Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background: #000000;	/* This is the page's background color, outside of the container */
	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: #666666;			/* Apparently this is the font color for the text inside the HTML page's body tag */
}

/* The container holds the entirety of the site's layout */
#container { 
	width: 980px;  			/* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
	height: 600px;			/* Constrains the height of the site (duh) */
	background: #000000;	/* This controls the background color of the container */
	margin: 0 auto; 		/* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
	/*border: 0px;			/* Specifying no border */
	text-align: left; 		/* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
}

#header {  
	/* All of the image paths are relative to this css stylesheet, not the HTMl page it applies to */
	background: url(../images/homepage/homePage_header.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;	/* Don't tile the image */
	/*background-position: top center;		/* Aligns the image */
	width: 980px;
	height: 72px;
	margin-top: 50px;				/* Give a 50 pixel buffer between the top of the page and the content */
}

#startTutorial {
	background: #000000;
	
	width: 185px;
	height: 63px;
	
	float: left;
}	

#footer { 
	background: url(../images/homepage/homePage_footer.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	
	width: 795px;
	height: 63px;
	
	float: left;
}

#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: 15px 20px 30px 0; 		/* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
	
	text-align: right;
	font-size: 80%;
}

#footer a {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 100%;
	text-decoration: none;	/* removes default underline */
	color: #666666;
}

#footer a:hover {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 100%;
	text-decoration: underline;	/* removes default underline */
	color: #999999;
}

#mainContent {
	background: url(../images/homepage/homePage_bodyBackground.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	/*background-attachment: fixed;		/* This broke more than it fixed, so it's being removed */
	background-position: center;		/* Safari and Firefox seem to be ok with this, IE not so much */
	
	width: 980px;
	height: 465px;
	float: left;	
}

.fltrt { 					/* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
	float: right;
	margin-left: 8px;
}

.fltlft { 					/* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
	float: left;
	margin-right: 8px;
}

.clearfloat { 				/* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
	clear:both;
    height:0;
    font-size: 1px;
    line-height: 0px;
}