Jeff, it plays for me but depending on your connection it may take a few minutes. Download link also works for me but I do suggest you use right click and Save As so it doesn't launch in Media player. Occasionally we do run into bandwidth contraints and after paying bandwidth overages for months I decided to no longer allow overages to happen. So if you can't view of download after waiting a few minutes if you aren't on a really fast connection then check back another time. Or I'll be happy to burn a cd and send it to you for the same price that Total Training would charge.

You will have empty space - probably what you are calling the white band, until later in the project when you have completed the body style definition. That is the default margin (or in the case of Opera padding) that is on the body element. You remove it by using margin: 0; padding: 0; in the body element. Depending on what is done with the heading in the masthead that too can cause empty space above the masthead however, that should also be addressed as you work through the remaining 3 parts of the tutorial. Remember this is only part 1 and there are three more parts to go before your page will be complete and all elements in their proper position.

Right click on the download link and select "save target as" using IE and it should download.

Are you using Internet Explorer? If so, you should have the option to "save target as". If you are using Firefox, there is an extension available on the Firefox exchange that will add that option to the right click menu.or you can use Alt + Enter for save link target as:

Oh and you must be logged in to download the file.