#mainWindow {
	height: 768px;
	width: 1024px;
	background-image: url(images/frontpage.jpg);
	z-index: 0;
	top: 0px;
	left: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
}
#content {
	background-color: #666666;
	z-index: -1;
	height: 150px;
	width: 85px;
	position: absolute;
	left: 315px;
	top: 268px;
}
.newsText {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10pt;
	color: #000000;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
<br />
/* for IE */
  filter:alpha(opacity=70);
	/* CSS3 standard */
  opacity:0.7;
}