html { 
  background: #eee url(smift.gif) no-repeat fixed 86% 90%;
  color: #000;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

/* prototype for the slants; an interesting parse situation (thanks MSIE) */
.slant {
  color: #eee;
  float: left;
  height: 0;
  line-height: 0;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: transparent;
  overflow: hidden;
}

/* main page menu */

#menu { 
  position: absolute;
  background: transparent;
  color: #eee;
  top: 1em;
  left: 1em;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  font-family: "Futura" , "Helvetica" , "Verdana" , sans-serif;
  font-size: 12pt;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
  text-align: left;
  line-height: 2.5em;
  white-space: nowrap;
} 

#menu a {
 text-decoration: none;
}

#menu a:link , #menu a:visited {
 color: #000;
}

#menu a:hover {
 color: #f88;
}

#menu a:active {
 color: #fff;
}

#menu .item {
  background: #f00;
  position: relative;
  float: left;
  padding: 0 0.5em;
}

#menu .name {
  letter-spacing: 0.2em;
}

#menu .right {
  border-width: 2.5em .67em 0 0;
  border-top-color: #f00;      
}

#menu .left {
  border-width: 0 0 2.5em 0.67em;
  border-bottom-color: #f00;      
}

/* sub page menu */

#smallmenu {
  position: fixed;
  background: transparent;
  color: #eee;
  bottom: -0.01em; /* that one's for you, firefox */
  left: 0;
  padding: 0.5em;
  height: 2.2em;
  margin: 0;
  font-family: "Futura" , "Helvetica" , "Verdana" , sans-serif;
  font-size: 11pt;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
  text-align: left;
  line-height: 2.2em;
  white-space: nowrap;
  z-index: 10;
}

#smallmenu a {
 display: block;
 text-decoration: none;
 float: left;
}

#smallmenu a:link , #smallmenu a:visited {
 color: #000;
}

#smallmenu a:hover {
 color: #f88;
}

#smallmenu a:active {
 color: #fff;
}

#smallmenu a .linkbody {
  background: #f00;
  padding: 0 0.4em;
}

#smallmenu span {
  float: left;
}

#smallmenu .right {
  border-width: 2.2em .67em 0 0;
  border-top-color: #f00;      
}

#smallmenu .left {
  border-width: 0 0 2.2em 0.67em;
  border-bottom-color: #f00;      
}

/* msie is lame */

a:hover span {
  cursor: pointer;
}

/* for the children, NS<=4 and lynx */

.nocss {
  display: none;
}