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I may link for beer (as a favour to a friend), but will I link for the chance to win an ipod? Simon Col­lison is offer­ing an ipod Nano to one per­son who links to Begin­ning CSS Web Devel­op­ment using an image from his site.

I enjoyed read­ing Simon’s chapter in CSS Mas­tery and if I was asked to recom­mend an intro­duct­ory book to CSS I would have no problem’s recom­mend­ing Begin­ning CSS Web Devel­op­ment as well as Russ Weakley’s Teach your­self CSS in 10 minutes. Both Simon and Russ are extremely know­ledge­able about CSS, and most import­antly they are both good com­mu­nic­at­ors, I have not read either book fully, but I have read chapters of books they have writ­ten as well as other mater­ial, includ­ing reg­u­larly the RSS feeds of their blogs.

So while I am will­ing to pro­mote these books as a good intro­duc­tion to CSS by authors that are both know­ledge­able and pas­sion­ate about the sub­ject. I am not will­ing to add am image of one of the books to my blog for two reas­ons. One, because the truly elastic nature of this blog requires elastic images. Which means a lot more work from me, to get suit­able images of both books. Secondly it is mat­ter of mor­als I had star­ted writ­ing this post, when Miles pos­ted Blog­ging Eth­ics and that is what this post is all about, you either blog about products, ser­vices or people you believe in or you blog for the mon­et­ary gain and you should tell people that you get­ting a fin­an­cial reward. Con­tex­tual ads clearly marked as advert­ise­ments are one thing, but unmarked paid product place­ments are an evil that unfor­tu­nately will creep into blog­ging like it did in tele­vi­sion, unless people take a stand.

There is no mon­et­ary reward in this for me, if Russ or Simon (might be through a proxy) buy me a beer at Web Dir­ec­tions 06 for pro­mot­ing their books, so be it, I am just pro­mot­ing books by authors who know their CSS, care about web stand­ards and write well.

Also if you are going to buy either book online, do it through the author’s web­site, the money they make that way is many times higher than a nor­mal sale.

Recommended introductory books on CSS

• Teach your­self CSS in 10 minutes
• Begin­ning CSS Web Development

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