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@woodbury55: Thanks for the nice words.  Here's the other series I've already created:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Beginner

As far as ASP.NET MVC ... I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but I do have some of that on my own website.

And yes, I hear the Steve Martin thing occasionally.  I've decided to tell a joke in exchange for a coffee.  Send me a Starbucks gift card and I'll tell you a Steve Martin joke.  

@aki: Good to hear ... were you missing a XAML namespace declaration associated with the d: prefix?

@Adriana: The great thing about software development is that it's a meritocracy: nothing matters except your knowledge and skill.  There's no personal politics in software development ... the computer discriminates against us all equally.  

You may want to briefly jump to the very end of this series ... in the final video, I suggest a few things you can do to build your skill.  Find any web page (start with a simple one!) and try to re-create it from scratch.  JUST FOR PRACTICE copy the images down from the original web page (right-click, Save Image As ...) and then write the HTML5 and CSS3 yourself, not looking at what the original author did.  After you've challenged yourself for a few hours, undoubtedly you'll get stuck and then you can look at how the original developer created that given page.  There may be a lot of JavaScript in the page for things like tracking or other dynamic functionality, but ignore that and only look at the HTML5 and CSS3.  Websites for small businesses might be a good place to start, OR purchase a SIMPLE HTML5 template (for under $10) from here:

http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/personal

... to see if you can re-create it, or modify it, or just understand what and why they did what they did.

But yeah, perhaps I should create a series of "challenges" for HTML5 / CSS3 developers to learn specific techniques.  Good idea.

Best wishes to you!  Stick with it ... baby steps and patience.  No one learns this stuff in a few days.  It takes weeks, months, even years to master it a little at a time.

@codingquery: Answered.  Hope it helps.

@aki: @codingquery: I'm assuming you are the same person ... according to this:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharpgeneral/thread/d85dc60d-d8c9-4a98-a769-ce7819024196/

It means you've hit a bug in the code you typed in.  Since you didn't land on C# code, I'm going to guess it's a problem with your XAML code.  I'm guessing this is related to your other issue with the blue squiggly line under line 85 in your XAML.  Since it's dealing with the Type Converter AND this is not a compilation error -- but rather a runtime error, I'm guessing you didn't implement it correctly and when you call it from XAML it breaks.  Perhaps you're missing a accessibility modifier like Public?  If I were you I would CLOSELY comb through my code.  Worst case ... compare ( or even copy the code) from the Windows 8 Lab in a Box / Contoso Cookbook Hands on Lab and paste it into your project ... both the List Converter AND the XAML that calls it to see if it fixes the problem.

I've never hit the error you describe, so outside of helping you debug it, I don't exactly why you're getting it.

@colin: Look at top of the page UNDER the video ... there's a paragraph that ends with this sentence: "Download the source code for Styling Your First HTML5 Web Page with CSS3".

Good luck!

@Jose Molina: Thanks Jose!  Good luck as you work through this series.

@shondralynn: I know this isn't what you want to hear, but I would say ... don't worry about the details just yet.  This wasn't meant to be a seal tight example.  In your case, it might be that the browser window is too wide and if you reduced it's width it will fall into line as expected.  Again, the focus here is on the flow and syntax.  If this were a real project, I would be obsessive about the code.  Today, for this example, it's just about becoming familiar with "what's possible".  Keep following the tutorials ... near the end, you'll see the best way to ensure your web pages look like you want them to.  Hope that helps a little.  

@Yumikokk: If you have problems streaming the video, try downloading.  The should be as crystal clear as this text I type.  (I agree ... for some reason, this streaming video is fuzzy).

http://jsfiddle.net/vnkuZ/

@Ivan Yosifov: I'm looking at the downloadable source code ... this is what I show:

    function substitute() {
      var myValue = document.getElementById('myTextBox').value;

      if (myValue.length == 0) {
        alert('Please enter a real value in the text box!');
        return;
      }
      var myTitle = document.getElementById('title');
      myTitle.innerHTML = myValue;
    }

But yes ... I ran into what you described quite accidentally.  In some cases, you can reference an element by its id attribute. However, I think that is a bug.  What I demo (above) is the appropriate way to do it.