body {margin:0px;background-image: url('images/useful/bg.gif') }

/*
This is for the layout (div) sections of the site. 
*/
#maincontent
{
float:left;
width: 63%;text-align:justify;
margin-right: 10px; padding:5px

}

#othercontent
{
float:right;
width:33%;

}

/* 
This is the style for the text of the site
*/

.maintext {font-family:Arial; font-size:12px}
.footer {font-family:Arial; color:#ffffff; font-size:11px; text-align:center}

.mainheader{font-family:Arial; color:#2d3263; font-size:17px; font-weight:bold; text-align:center}


.mainlink:link {font-family:Arial;font-size:13px; color:#ffffff; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; margin-right:25px}
.mainlink:active {font-family:Arial;font-size:13px; color:#ffffff; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; margin-right:25px}
.mainlink:visited {font-family:Arial;font-size:13px; color:#ffffff; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; margin-right:25px}
.mainlink:hover {font-family:Arial;font-size:13px; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold; margin-right:25px}

.sidenav:link {font-family:Arial;font-size:12px; color:#2d3263; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;}
.sidenav:active {font-family:Arial;font-size:12px; color:#2d3263; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;}
.sidenav:visited {font-family:Arial;font-size:12px; color:#2d3263; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;}
.sidenav:hover {font-family:Arial;font-size:12px; color:#2d3263; font-weight:bold; border:1px dotted #2d3263; padding:2px; background:#ffffff}

.bullet {list-style-image:url('images/useful/arrow.gif')}

input, textarea, select, submit  {
    background: #ffffff; 
    filter:alpha(opacity="67");
    COLOR: #000000;font-weight: bold; 
    font-size:10PT;
    letter-spacing:0pt;
    line-height: 17px;
    font-family: arial, verdana;
    border: 1PT SOLID #000000;
}

/*styling for dropdown menu*/

#dropmenudiv{
position:absolute;
border:1px solid white;
border-bottom-width: 0;
font:normal 10px Verdana;
line-height:18px;
z-index:100;
text-align:left;

}

#dropmenudiv a{
width: 100%;
display: block;
text-indent: 3px;
border-bottom: 1px solid white;
padding: 1px 0;
text-decoration: none;
color:#ffffff
}

#dropmenudiv a:hover{ /*hover background color*/
background-color: #CCCCCC; color:#2d3263
}