I use Joomla for some of my sites and Looking around in here I notice that Miles uses Wordpress, and some others use CSS sites.


I am curious to what peoples opinions are, and which do they think would most benefit an affiliate marketers site.


Thanks

I personally hand-code my sites (that's what I believe you mean by CSS sites). I know a number of affiliate marketers who have success with Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal with WP the most favored for its extensive addons.

CMS' (Wordpress, Joomla, ...) are good if you are just getting started web design. If you can hand code sites in html & css, that is always the best route to take. I use Wordpress for blogs, but everything else I do is completely custom.

Personally I use CSS no matter what. It is hard to be a web designer and not run into CSS. Sites like livejournal, wordpress, myspace, and many others let you not only create css for your stuff, but can let you even customize the apperance of your page (ie your theme).

When you use a CMS (like wordpress) it uses PHP, or another higher level language to through your pages together in XHTML, and then uses a internal stylesheet (your template) and then styles the page accordingly.

Wether or not you are using dynamically constructed pages (like wordpress pages, again), CSS is the most commonly used form of styling.

CSS is also pretty quick (unless you're using inline definitions, and classes which can slow your code down by about 40%) when you clarify things by id name, and link to an external CSS file.

CMS systems are good for commerce sites. There is a CMS made for e-commerce called Magento, and it may be something you might want to look at. However, wordpress is very nice. Joomla, and Drupal are okay. There are many CMS's to choose from. Though you're likely going to be looking at the four I mentioned earlier, they are considered to be the best. Who knows, you may even choose something different.

I hope this proves useful!