body {
	font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background: #00292F url(../images/background.jpg) repeat-x;
	margin: 0px; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
	padding: 0px;
	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: #000000;
}
#container {
	width: 972px;  /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
	background: #FFFFFF;
	margin: 20px auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
	border: 1px solid #000000;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
	overflow:hidden;
}
#header {
	background-image:  url(../images/header.jpg);
	height:196px;
	width:972px;
	margin: 0px;
	padding:0px;
}
#headertext{
font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size:1.4em;
font-style:italic;
color:white;
    position: relative;
    height: auto;
    width: 400px;
    left: 500px;
    top: 50px;
}

#mainContent {
	padding: 20px 12px 0 12px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	background: #fff url(../images/maincontentbackground.jpg) no-repeat;
	overflow:hidden;
}
#mainContent h2{
font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size:1.2em;
color: #000000;
margin:10px 0px 6px 0px;
}

.float_left {
float:left;
}

.float_right {
float:right;
}

/* CURRENT PROJECTS BOXES */
.boxes {
width:31%;
float:left;

}

.boxes_head {
height:30px;
background-image:url(../images/sidebar_center.jpg);
border-width: 1px 1px 0px 1px;
border-spacing: 0px;
border-style: solid solid none solid;
border-color: #D3D3D3;
}

/* To Center align the title add= text-align:center; */
.boxes_head_text {
height:23px;
padding:7px 0 0 0;
font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
color:#000000;
font-size:16px;
font-weight:bold;
margin-left:5px;
}

.boxes_content {
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
padding:5px;
color:#000;
background-color:#ffffff;
border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
border-spacing: 0px;
border-style: none solid solid solid;
border-color: #D3D3D3;
min-height:280px; /*also set height in *html below for IE7*/
margin:0px 0px 10px 0px;
line-height:1.3em;
}

/*RIGHT SIDE BOXES*/

.rightside{
width:26%;
float:right;
}

.profiles {
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
padding:5px;
color:#666666;
background-color:#ffffff;
border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
border-spacing: 0px;
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
border-color: #D3D3D3;
margin:0px 0px 10px 0px;
}

.emailbox {
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
padding:5px;
color:#666666;
background-color:#ffffff;
border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
border-spacing: 0px;
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
border-color: #D3D3D3;
margin:0px 0px 10px 0px;
}

/* for Internet Explorer */
/*\*/
* html .boxes_content {
height: 280px;
}
/**/


#footer {
	padding: 0 10px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
	background:#DDDDDD;
	margin-top:10px;
	clear:both;
}
#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: 10px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
}