body {
	font: 80% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background: #FFFFFF;
	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: #000000;
}
img {border:0;}

#container {
	width: 900px;  /* this will create a container 80% of the browser width */
	background: #FFFFFF; /* 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. */
	margin-top: 0;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-bottom: 0;
	margin-left: auto;
}

#header {
	padding: 0 10px 0 20px;  /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
	background-color: #FFF;
	text-align: center;
}

#header h1 {
	margin: 0; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */
	padding: 10px 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
}

#mainContent {
	padding: 0 20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
	background: #FFFFFF;
}

#blogContent {
	float: left;
	padding: 0 0 20px 45px;
	margin: 0px 0 0 45px;
	width: 450px;
}

#menu { 
	float: left;
	list-style-type: none;
	padding: 40px 0 40px 35px;
	margin: 0px 0 45px 35px;
} 

#menu ul { 
	list-style-type: none;
	margin-left: 0;
	padding-left: 20px;
} 




#clear { 
	clear: both; 
} 

#footer { 
	padding: 0 10px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
	background:#DDDDDD;
} 


#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 */
	font-size: smaller;
}