.container-splash
{
    z-index: 0; /* trigger hasLayout, isolate child z-index properties */
    position: fixed;
    width: 100%;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    height: 650px; /* splash height */
}
.container-head.float
{
    /* unfix header until it scrolls off top, see JS */
    position: absolute;
    top: 650px; /* splash height */
}
.container-main
{
    position: relative;
    top: 650px; /* splash height */
}
.slides-container
{
    width: 100%;
    height: 650px;
    position: relative;
}
.slides-container .bg
{
    width: 100%;
    padding: 12px 0px;
}
.slides-container .image
{
    margin: 0px auto;
    width: 1200px;
}
.slides-container img
{
    width: 1200px;
}
.slides-overlay
{
    z-index: 2; /* above the sliding images */
    position: absolute;
    top: 150px;
    width: 100%;
}
.slides-overlay .overlay
{
    margin: 0px auto;
    padding: 10px;
    width: 300px;
}
.slides-overlay .overlay img
{
    cursor: hand;
    cursor: pointer;
}
.slides-overlay .downarrow
{
    margin: 0px auto;
    width: 48px;
    display: none;
}
.welcome-header
{
    text-align: left;
    font-weight: 700;
    font-size: 40px;
    color: #4c00e6; /*royalblue*/
    margin-left: 5%;
    padding-right: 5px;
    /*text-shadow: 2px 2px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.50);*/
}
.welcome-text
{
    padding: 20px 5px 0px 5px;
    margin-right: 10%;
    margin-left: 5%;
}
.portrait-box
{
    height: 170px;
    width: 170px;
    background-image: url('images/portrait-small.png');
    margin-right: 5%;
    margin-left: auto;
}
.news-box
{
    background-image: url('images/concrete-bg.jpg');
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    margin-top: -30px;
}
.news-box a
{
}
.news-box a:hover
{    
}
.news-content
{
    color: #000;
    padding: 30px 30px 70px 30px;
    text-align: left;
}
.news-title
{
    font-size: 20px;
    text-transform: uppercase;
}
.news-item
{
    padding-top: 15px;
}
.news-date
{
    color: #fff; /*puttygray*/
    font-weight: 700;
    padding-right: 5px;
}
.box-welcome
{
    width: 100%;
    height: 500px;
    text-align: center;
    clear: both;
}
.box-about
{
    background-image: url('images/about-tint.jpg');
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.box-research
{
    background-image: url('images/research-tint.jpg');
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.box-teaching
{
    background-image: url('images/teaching-tint.jpg');
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.box-design
{
    background-image: url('images/steel.jpg');
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.box-contact
{
    background-image: url('images/steel.jpg');
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

.strip-about
{
    background-color: #e7be00; /*yellow*/
}
.strip-research
{
    background-color: #00addd; /*turquoise*/
}
.strip-teaching
{
    background-color: #4c00e6; /*royalblue*/
}
.box-400
{
    width: 400px;
    float: left;
}
.box-auto
{
    width: auto;
    float: right;
}
.box-container a:hover .strip-about
{
    background-color: #ffd61a; /*lightyellow*/
}
.box-container a:hover .strip-research
{
    background-color: #12ccff; /*lightturquoise*/
}
.box-container a:hover .strip-teaching
{
    background-color: #5f40ff; /*lightroyalblue*/
}

.highlight
{
    border: solid #fff;
    border-width: 1px;
    padding: 15px;
    margin: 15px 0px 0px 0px;
}