body {
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;       
    /* font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times', serif; */
    font-size: 14px;
    background: #000;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    text-align: center; /* required for CSS horizontal centering to work in IE (IE bugfix)*/
}

.green_bg {
    background: url(img/tile.jpg); 
    background-repeat: repeat;
    z-index: 1;
}

#red_stripe {
    position: relative;
    margin: 0;
    top: 50px;
    left: 0px;
    width: 864px;
    height: 502px;
    background: url(img/home_bg.png);  
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    z-index: 2;
}

#intro {
    width: 580px;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    font-weight: bold;
    line-height: 160%;
}

#nav {
    position: absolute;
    top: 110px;
    left: 650px;
    text-align: left;
}

#nav a {
    display: block;
    padding: 10px;
}

.bigwhite {
    /* font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times', serif; */
    font-family:  georgia, serif;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-size: 22px;
    color: #fff;
}

.center {
    position: relative;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}


.vertspacer100 {
    height: 100px;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
}

img {
    border: 0px;
}

#splash {
    top: 160px;
    position:relative; /* puts container in front of vertspacer_main */
}

#vertspacer_main { 
    width:1px;
    height:50%;
    margin-bottom:-300px; /* half of #art height */
    float:left;
}

#main {
    margin:0 auto;
    position:relative; /* puts container in front of vertspacer_main */
    width: 864px;
    height: 600px;
    clear:left;
    background: url(img/tile.jpg); 
    background-repeat: repeat;
}

#art {
    margin:0 auto;
    position:relative; 
    text-align:left;
    width: 864px;
    height: 600px;
    clear:left;
    background: url(img/art_background.png);  
}

#art .text {
    position:absolute; 
    top: 230px;
    left: 470px;
}

#art #text img {
    display: block;
    position:relative; 
    left: 50px;
    margin-bottom: 5px;
}

#ul {
    position:absolute; 
    top: 0px;
    left: 0px;
}

#ur {
    position:absolute; 
    top: 0px;
    left: 824px;
}

#ll {
    position:absolute; 
    top: 555px;
    left: 0px;
}

#lr {
    position:absolute; 
    top: 558px;
    left: 822px;
}

.thumbnails_top {
    position:absolute; 
    top: 20px;
    left: 460px;
    height: 200px;
    width: 370px;
}

.thumbnails_bottom {
    position:absolute; 
    top: 400px;
    left: 460px;
    height: 180px;
    width: 370px;
} 

.thumbnails_top img {
    /*border-top: 2px solid #ccc;
    border-left: 2px solid #ccc;
    border-bottom: 2px solid #666;
    border-right: 2px solid #666;  drop shadows */
    margin: 10px;
}

.thumbnails_bottom img {
    /* border-top: 2px solid #ccc;
    border-left: 2px solid #ccc;
    border-bottom: 2px solid #666;
    border-right: 2px solid #666; drop shadows */
    margin: 10px;
}

#closeup {
    position: absolute; 
    top: 40px; 
    left: 40px; 
    width: 400px;
    height: 515px;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    display: none; 
    /* background: url(img/popup_bg.png); 
    background-repeat: no-repeat; */
}

#closeup img {
     /* border: 1px solid red;  */
}

#bio_top {
    width: 553px;
    height: 92px;
    margin: 0px auto;
    padding: 0;
    background: url(img/bio_top.png); 
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

#links_top {
    width: 553px;
    height: 92px;
    margin: 0px auto;
    padding: 0;
    background: url(img/links_top.png); 
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

#bio_mid {
    width: 553px;
    margin: 0px auto;
    padding: 1px;
    background: url(img/bio_mid.png); 
    background-repeat: repeat-y;
    z-index: 3;
    color: #fff;
}

#bio_mid img {
    margin: 0;
}

#bio_bottom {
    width: 553px;
    height: 143px;
    margin: 0px auto;
    padding: 0;
    background: url(img/bio_bottom.png); 
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

#bio_mid .contents {
    margin: 40px 70px;
    text-align: center;
    line-height: 24px;
}