body {
  background-color: transparent;
  background-image: url('../images/bckgr09a.gif');
  background-position: top left;
  background-repeat: repeat;
  /*this chooses and sets up the background image*/  

  margin-left: 20%; 
  margin-right: 20%;
  /*this sets the text being centered*/
  
  font-family: "CG Omega", Albertus, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Verdana, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans serif;
  font-size: 20px;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-style: italic;
  color: white;
  }
  
	a:link {color:#00ffff;}
	a:visited {color:#e3007b;}
	a:focus {color:#ffff00;}
	a:hover {color:#ffff00;}
	a:active {color:#ff0000;}
/*this sets the colors for unclicked links to light blue, followed ones to fuschia, ones that are being hovered over or chosen from the keyboard to yellow, and ones that are actively being clicked to red*/