A hosting provider is an online server that offers 'hosting' for websites.

Hosting is where your website "lives" on the Internet eg; where your www.website.com is hosted on the Internet.

We use, recommend and design for www.wahmshoppes.com hosted websites and stores. www.wahmshoppes.com is a 'hosting provider'.

There are three things you need to have an online store/website.

The first thing you need is a domain name. A domain name is a series of numbers that identifies your website apart from every other website on the Net. As people couldn't possibly remember these sets of numbers, we use letters instead. That is why names are used for websites, apart from the obvious reasons of using your business name for your website. A domain name costs about $7-$10 per year for a .com address. eg. www.yoursite.com is a domain name. Go Daddy is probably the most afforable place to register .com etc domain names. If you're an Australian, then I can recommend more affordable registrars to get a .com.au domain name. You do not need to have a .com.au domain name if you're an Australian, you can also use .com addresses.

The second thing you need to have a store/website is a domain host provider. You can NOT have a website without a place to host your domain name. I use and recommend www.Wahmshoppes.com hosting to all of my clients. Their hosting comes with a free shopping cart which is very user friendly and clients can update and maintain their own sites using their hosting.

The third thing you need is a design/layout/template/ that will work with your hosting. I create all of my designs to work within wahmshoppes hosting. The templates include special tags and codes so that once you install the template, your store is ready for you to start adding products to. You don't need to know or understand HTML to use my templates with wahmshoppes. I can also install everything for you which saves you time and me a lot of headaches at times ;)