which would be better for a newbie at affiliate advertising?
i dont have much to spend on advertising and this is a link directly to the affiliate page not to my own website.. which would be better adcenter or adwords? thanks

i dont understand do you mean you want to ads on your CP site? or place ads for your CP ste??

i have never heard of adcenter - adwords lets you pay-per-click to advertise your shop..this is good for highly specialized sites

adsense is googles ads you place on your site and get paid per click - you cannot put adsense on your cafepress shop only your offsite...

Adcenter is Microsoft's version of Adwords ShopaholicChick.

As a newbie at both, you should learn a little about them before.

Try WMW:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/msn_adcenter/
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adwords

While Adcenter might deliver more targeted traffic, I get literally 10 times the clicks from AdWords than I do from AdCenter. AdCenter is less competitive, though, so you can save some on your cost per click with them, but there's just not enough traffic to rely on AdCenter Alone. I would start with AdWords, then import into AdCenter.