a:link { 
 color: #333399; 
 font-size: 13px; 
 font-weight: bold; 
 text-decoration: underline; 
}

a:visited { 
 color: #333399; 
 font-size: 13px; 
 font-weight: bold; 
 text-decoration: underline; 
}

a:active { 
 color: #333399; 
 font-size: 13px; 
 font-weight: bold; 
 text-decoration: underline; 
}

a:hover { 
 color: red; 
 font-size: 13px; 
 font-weight: bold; 
 text-decoration: none; 
}



blockquote{
	font-family: Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
	font-style: italic;
	margin-left: 40px;
	margin-right: 0px}

body{
 background-color: #99CCFF; 
 background-image: url(http://www.newintellectualforum.com/images/banner.jpg);
 background-repeat: no-repeat;
 color: black;
 font-family: Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
 font-size: 15px;
 margin: 0px 8px 10px 8px;
}


/*--- blank space used skip past background image ---*/

.headerSpacer {
 margin-bottom: 240px; 
}


/*--- just does a white background ---*/

.whitebckgrnd {
  background-color:   white;
  padding: 4px 8px 8px 4px;
  border: 5px double green;
}


/*
define menu button behavior
*/


#button {
	width: 160px;
	padding: 0 0 1em 0;
	margin-bottom: 1em;
	font-family: Tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande',
	  Verdana, Lucida, Geneva, Helvetica, 
	  Arial, sans-serif;
        font-size: 20px; 
	font-weight: bold; 
	background-color: #3399FF;
	text-decoration: bold;
	}

#button ul {
		list-style: none;
		margin: 0;
		padding: 0;
		border: none;
		}
		
	#button li {
		border-bottom: 2px solid #3399FF;
		margin: 0;
		}

#button li a {
		display: block;
		padding: 3px 2px 2px 3px;
		border-left: 5px solid #3399FF;
		border-right: 5px solid #3399FF;
		background-color: blue;
		color: white;
        font-size: 16px; 
        font-weight: bold; 
	text-align: center;
		text-decoration: none;
		width: 100%;
		}

	html>body #button li a {
		width: auto;
		}

	#button li a:hover {
		border-left: 5px solid #3399FF;
		border-right: 5px solid #3399FF;
		background-color: white;
        font-size: 16px;
        font-weight: bold; 
	text-align: center;
		text-decoration: none;
		color: blue;
		}



.topiclist{
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 140%;
	padding-top: 4px;
	padding_bottom: 4px;
}


form{
	margin-top: 15px;
}

h1{
	font-size: 16px;
}

h1,h2,h3,h4{
	margin: 0.2em 0;
}

h2{
	font-size: 14px;
}

img{
	border: none;
}


table{
	min-width: 760px;
	width: 100%;
}

td{
	vertical-align: top;
	width: auto;
}

textarea.combox{
	background-color: #dfe4da;
	color: #544875;
	font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	padding: 7px;
	width: 370px;
}

.anchor{
	background-color: transparent;
	color: #a490d9;
}


.center{
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	text-align: center;
}

.clear{
	clear: both;
	font-size: 1px;
	height: 1px;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}


.date{
	text-align: right;
}

.datecolorblock{
	background-color: #587692;
	color: #587692;
	font-size: 2px;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	width: 100px;
}

.datecolorline{
	border-top: 1px solid #587692;
}

.dateday{
	background-color: transparent;
	color: #b9c9d9;
	font-size: 21px;
}

.datemonth{
	background-color: transparent;
	color: #95b2c4;
	font-size: 17px;
}

/*Standard Compliant Rollover Class*/
.imgover{
	border: none;
}

.middlecol{
	width: auto;
}

.nonenglish{
	background-color: transparent;
	color: #ff8c00;
	font-weight: bold;
}

.note{
	font-size: 10px;
}

.plain{
	font-style: normal;
}

.postbuttons{
	font-family: Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
	margin-bottom: 30px;
	margin-top: 10px;
}

.postbuttons a,.postbuttons a:link,.postbuttons a:active,.postbuttons a:visited{
	background-color: transparent;
	color: #ffffff;
	font-weight: normal;
}

.postbuttons a:hover{
	background-color: transparent;
	color: #a490d9;
	font-weight: normal;
}

.postbuttons img{
	border: none;
	vertical-align: text-top;
}

.posted{
	background-color: transparent;
	color: #b2c4d5;
	font-family: Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
	font-size: 0.9em;
	margin-top: 0.1em;
}

.right{
	text-align: right;
}

.separator{
	margin: 2.0em auto 2.0em auto;
	text-align: center;
}

.sepcolorblock{
	background-color: #00183e;
	color: #00183e;
	font-size: 2px;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	width: 100px;
}

.sepcolorline{
	border-top: 1px solid #00183e;
}

.sidebar{
	font-family: Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	width: 100%;
}

.sidebar-centered{
	padding: 5px 3px 5px 3px;
	text-align: center;
}

.sidebartitles{
	background-color: #002040;
	color: #c6d7e8;
	padding: 0px;
	text-align: center;
}

.sidecol{
	width: 172px;
}

.sidecolorblock{
	background-color: #587692;
	color: #587692;
	font-size: 2px;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	max-height: 2px;
	width: 55%;
}

.small{
	font-size: smaller;
}

.strike{
	text-decoration: line-through;
}

.sub{
	font-size: 8px;
	vertical-align: sub;
}

.sup{
	font-size: 8px;
	vertical-align: super;
}

.title{
	font-size: 15px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

.typenonelist{
list-style: none inside;
padding-left: 5px;
}


.insidelist{
list-style: disc inside;
padding-left: 5px;
}

.alttype{
	line-height: 110%;
	list-style-image: url(http://www.newintellectualforum.com/images/listimage.jpg);
}

#banner{
	font-size: 10px;
	margin: 0px 0px 30px 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	text-align: right;
	width: 100%;
}

#content{
	margin: 0px 0px 30px 0px;
	padding-left: 15px;
	padding-right: 20px;
}

#footer{
	background-color: #99CCFF;
 border-top: 1px solid blue;
	font-size: 14px;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	text-align: center;
}

#left{
	background-color: #3399FF;
	border: 1px inset blue;
	color: black;
	font-size: 12px;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	padding-top: 3px;
	width: 170px;
}

#left a,#left a:link,#left a:active,#left a:visited{
	font-weight: normal;
}

#main{
	background-color: transparent;
	color: black;
	font-family: Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
}

#menu{
	background-color: #002b56;
	border: 1px solid #577695;
	border-bottom: 1px dashed #577695;
	color: #9db3c8;
	font-size: 11px;
	margin-bottom: 20px;
	padding: 4px;
}

#right{
	background-color: #3399FF;
	border: 1px outset blue;
	color: black;
	font-size: 12px;
	margin: 0px;
	padding-right: 2px;
	padding-left: 3px;
	width: 170px;
}

#right a,#right a:link,#right a:active,#right a:visited{
	font-weight: normal;
}