Competition: Win a 2 Year Gold Membership and Copy of CSS3 Foundations

Hi Ian,

I look forward to following your content and reading your books.

(grudge) A competition would involve competing. This is more of a lottery prize for building facebook likes. I think it would be better not to hide the intentions here as it looks subversive. (/end_grudge)

Thanks for your feedback Andrew, I can relate to your grudge as I am not keen on "like to win" type competitions myself. I think forcing people to do something they may not actually be interested in works for neither party, something I have tried to avoid with this competition.

Having put so much work and dedication into something I am extremely proud of though, I want people to learn about the book but in a way that is not misleading and gives entrants a choice as to whether they help promote it. In this competition, entrants have the choice to tweet a link -- should they feel their friends will also benefit. If they don't want to do that for whatever reason, they can just comment on the article to enter. I'm not building likes or asking for followers, just trying to spread the word with the consent of the entrant (Facebook is just used to obtain the entrants name and email address).

Admittedly, giving entrants double the chance to win by tweeting AND commenting is a little unfair on those who don't want to tweet, which is something I will change for future competitions.

I think that if you changed the way it was done - spread the word if you like this content, share with others you think would like it, let's give this away to one of your friends - that kind of thing.

I don't think it needs to be subtle - just straightforward - I think my grudge is about saying one thing when you want something else instead of just being up front and saying you want to spread the word, promote the material, get feedback and help others to benefit from the time, effort, energy and commitment you've put into making a resource that will help them.

I think that it's also not a competition, so it's misleading. It's a bit of a lottery with the chance to be selected at random to receive something for helping to promote your product. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's not a competition where you've got a chance of beating others based on some skill or knowledge or action - it's entirely random.

It's a tone-issue not a product issue. :) I still would love to see what you've written and benefit from your dedication to collating it and making it presentable.

Thank you for doing it!