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What is the difference between CSS, CMS, PHP websites, etc.?

I'm not sure if there are any other types of templates. However, I am researching which is the best / easiest. I am looking to build a world-class e-commerce website, and am considering using go-daddy.com. So much to read, so little time... thank you for your help!

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1. These technologies are really not comparable. They are completely different things. A lot of CMS's probably make use of PHP... all of them certainly make use of CSS, but it's not like you're going to be picking one of those three. If you want to make a world-class e-commerce website, you need to do in a world-class amount of study. Spend at least a month reading about each of those technologies, then come back and ask specific questions once you actually know what you're asking.
2. CSS, CMS, and PHP are different but related things. It's not like you chose one. CSS is basically a way to declare you put your purely-visual html info in a separate, central place so that changing the look and feel of your site is a matter of editing a single CSS file instead of editing every page. PHP is a programming language that's primarily used to dynamically generate html. CMS (content management system) just a generic term for an web application that allows an administrator to manage the information that is shown to the end user. So a CMS may be written in PHP (but could be in Ruby on Rails, JSP, .Net, etc) and probably uses CSS.