web developers using existing tools (WordPress, etc) or building their own pages

[orange_oranges]

first time here - im a web developer (deal more with back-end database stuff, html/css skills aren't that great) that is new to affiliate marketing. been researching alot of great tools you guys have listed, but kept wondering whether it was worth building my own landing page and tools.

are there any web developers here that prefer building their own landing pages and affiliate marketing web app tools, instead of using the existing free ones (seems like the majority are WordPress + plugins).

i guess this could be a preference of just having total control of the code, not switching to PHP if you code in another language, and not having to become familiar with WordPress and its plugins.

of course its ideal to have some sort of custom tool to automate the whole process, but im sure there's also alot of time saved using the existing stuff. thoughts?

 

[erect]

I can't think of a single auto-generated site in my arsenal that's built on top of existing architecture ... from my experience most open source solutions are inefficient and building custom features is frequently a runaround. I guess it's a personal preference though, I choose to build from the groud up since, from my experience, the finished product is almost never a mirror image of what I started out doing.

Landing pages (PPC style) are different. I'm pretty sure 90% of everyone uses 202, which is a great program. I also doubt wordpress is the standard for the actual landing pages. Probably more static pages or light php processing just so they can scale their campaigns more efficiently.

WP commonly dies with digg traffic surges ... PPC can push much more traffic than that easily.

 

[ChrisBa]

Personally I just use Wordpress - easy to use, many templates available and very easy to make changes..

 

[orange_oranges]

I can't think of a single auto-generated site in my arsenal that's built on top of existing architecture ... from my experience most open source solutions are inefficient and building custom features is frequently a runaround. I guess it's a personal preference though, I choose to build from the groud up since, from my experience, the finished product is almost never a mirror image of what I started out doing.

Landing pages (PPC style) are different. I'm pretty sure 90% of everyone uses 202, which is a great program. I also doubt wordpress is the standard for the actual landing pages. Probably more static pages or light php processing just so they can scale their campaigns more efficiently.

WP commonly dies with digg traffic surges ... PPC can push much more traffic than that easily.

thats interesting - i was under the impression WP had decent caching out of the box and could stand a bit of traffic. i guess im somewhat interested in WP only because of my lack of design / front end skills and the number of templates out there. with that being said, there are also a bunch of templates that aren't using any framework (static html/css) that i could use.

is there any feature you guys find very useful, already built out of as a WP plugin, that would really be take up alot of time to code yourself? i guess this kind of analysis would help decide whether or not to go with WP