/* MASTHEAD STRUCTURE */

#masthead {
 position:relative;
 margin:0px auto;
 _width:100%; /* IE 6 sucks. */
 max-width:790px;
}

.dialog {
 position:relative;
 margin:0px auto;
 min-width:8em;
 max-width:800px; 
 color:#fff;
 z-index:1;
 margin-left:12px; /* default, width of left corner */
 margin-bottom:0.5em; /* spacing under dialog */
}

.dialog .content,
.dialog .t,
.dialog .b,
.dialog .b div {
 background:transparent url(images/dialog.png) no-repeat top right;
 _background-image:url(images/dialog.gif);
}

.dialog .content {
 position:relative;
 zoom:1;
 _overflow-y:hidden;
 padding:0px 12px 0px 0px;
}

.dialog .t {
 /* top+left vertical slice */
 position:absolute;
 left:0px;
 top:0px;
 width:12px; /* top slice width */
 margin-left:-12px;
 height:100%;
 _height:1600px; /* arbitrary long height, IE 6 */
 background-position:top left;
}

.dialog .b {
 /* bottom */
 position:relative;
 width:100%;
}

.dialog .b,
.dialog .b div {
 height:30px; /* height of bottom cap/shade */
}

.dialog .b {
 background-position:bottom right;
}

.dialog .b div {
 position:relative;
 width:12px; /* bottom corner width */
 margin-left:-12px;
 background-position:bottom left;
}

.dialog .hd,
.dialog .bd,
.dialog .ft {
 position:relative;
}

.dialog .bd {
	padding: 5px;
	}

.dialog .wrapper {
 /* extra content protector - preventing vertical overflow (past background) */
 position:static;
 max-height:1000px;
 overflow:auto; /* note that overflow:auto causes a rather annoying redraw "lag" in Firefox 2, and may degrade performance. Might be worth trying without if you aren't worried about height/overflow issues. */
}

.dialog h1,
.dialog p {
 margin:0px; /* margins will blow out backgrounds, leaving whitespace. */
 padding:0.5em 0px 0.5em 0px;
}

.dialog h1 {
 padding-bottom:0px;
}
.dialog.type2 .content {
 padding:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0px;
}

.dialog .wrapper {
 min-height:155px; /* minimum content height, so bottom shade fills in nicely - can ignore if no gradient in dialog, etc. */
}


/* dialog variants - alternate colours, widths and so on */

.dialog.type2 .content,
.dialog.type2 .t,
.dialog.type2 .b,
.dialog.type2 .b div {
 background-image:url(images/dialog.png);
 _background-image:url(images/dialog.gif);
}

.dialog.type2 .b,
.dialog.type2 .b div {
 height:40px; /* slightly higher due to bottom shade */
 background-align: bottom;
}

.dialog.type2 .content {
 min-height:155px;/* compensate overall height for bottom shade */
}

/* MASTHEAD POST STRUCTURE */

.mast-date {
	float: left;
	position: absolute;
	top: 0px;
	left: 0px;
	width: 100px;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-weight: 700;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
	text-align:center;
	}
	
.mast-month {
	font-size: 2.6em;
	line-height: 0.6em;
}
.mast-day {
	font-size: 5.2em;
	line-height: 0.9em;
}
.mast-year {
	font-size: 2.6em;
	line-height: 0.8em;
}	

#masttitle {	
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px;
	width: 650px;
}
.mast-title, .mastitle h1, .mastitle h1 a, .mastitle h1 a:hover, .mastitle h1 a:visited, .mastitle h1 a:active {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-weight: 900;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
	font-size: 1em;
	letter-spacing: -1px;
	word-spacing: -2px;
	text-decoration: none;
}

.mast-postmetadata {
	float: right;
	padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 1.2em;
	text-decoration: none;
	font-weight: 800;
}

.mast-postmetadata a, .mast-postmetadata a:hover, .mast-postmetadata a:visted, .mast-postmetadata a: active{
	text-decoration: none:
	color: #F8F8FE;
}

#mast-entry {
	float: left;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px;
	width: 650px;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 1.2em;
	text-decoration: none;
	display: inline;
}

.mast-microphone {
	float: left;
	position: absolute;
	left: 0px;
	top: 0px;
	margin: 0px auto;
	padding: 0px auto;
	text-align: center;
	z-index: 2;
	}