body
  {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    position: absolute;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    font-family: arial, sans-serif;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
  }
  
.banner /* Set the style for what we see in the page banner */
  {
    margin: 0;
    width: auto;
    height: 63px; /* This is the height of the picture we use */
    background-color: #BF292A; /* The deeper color of the gradient */
    color: #FFFFFF; /* set the color of any text we might use */
    background-image: url(img/banner.jpg);
    background-repeat: no-repeat; /* We just want one instance of the picture*/
    background-position: left; /*push the image all the way to the left */
    padding: 0;
    font-family: arial, sans-serif;
  }

/* Set the properties of the menu frame on the left side */
.menu 
  
  #menu_graphic /* Set the properties of the base menu image */
    { 
      background-image: url(img/menu.jpg);
      background-repeat: no-repeat;
      height: 432px;
      width: 170px;
    }
  
  /* This sets the boundaries of the links in our menu */
  #button
    {
      width: 170px;
      height: 46px;      
      position: absolute;
      left: 0; 
      font-family: arial, sans-serif;
      font-weight: bold;
      font-size: 24px;
      text-decoration: none;
      padding-top: 16px;
      color: #FFF;
    }
  #button ul /* defines the menu list */
    {
      list-style: none;
      margin: 0;
      padding: 0;
      border: none;
    }
/*    
  #button li
    {
      margin: 0;
    }
*/
    
  #button li a /* Defines what the menu links will look like */
    {
      display: block;
      color: #FFF;
      /* top right bottom left*/
      padding-top: 8px;
      padding-bottom: 8px;
      text-decoration: none;
      width: 138px;
      position: relative; /* positions each list item correctly */
      top: 173px;
      left: 32px;
    }

/*
  html>body #button li a
    {
      width: auto;
    }
*/
  
  #button li a:hover
    {
      color: #F7ED04
    }
  /* This adds a fade-out image below the menu.
     By making the fadeout a separate image I can more easily make the menu
     image longer (add more items) if necessary. */
.fade
  {
    background-image: url(img/v_gradient.jpg);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    position: absolute;
    top: 495px;
    height: 60px;
    width: 170px;
  } 
    
.content /* This sets the style for the main content area of the page */
  {
    margin-left: 180px; /* place this block to the right of the menu block that is 170 pixels wide */
    width: auto;
    height: 400;
    overflow: auto;
    font-size: 12;
    line-height: 18px;
    font-family: arial, sans-serif;
  }

.bottom /* Style for the bottom of the page*/
  {
    left: 0px;
    height: 30px;
    background-color: #BF292A;
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-family: arial, sans-serif;
    padding: 10px;
  }