There is a lot of technology behind the Internet. But all you really need to know is that these computers are connected and can talk to each other.

There is no home of the Internet or a master computer. Just lots of computers all over the world with lots of information all hooked together.

If you have access to the Internet, you can read, hear and view all this information from your own computer.

This works, because computer people have developed complex programming languages which allow creating pages which can be read by web browsers such as Internet Explorer or FireFox.

Fortunately you don’t have to know these languages to make your own web site with shopping cart. 

A good e-commerce solution or shopping cart software such as ShopFactory will automatically convert all your information into a web site to allow a web browser to read it.

You just have to add your content, much like in a text editor.

Making your own information available on the Internet is just as easy.

All it takes is to store your information on a computer which is connected to the Internet in such a way, that anyone on the Internet can read the information stored on it.

Such a computer is called a server, because it serves the information to the website visitor, or client.

Hosting companies set up many servers and rent out space on them. To make your information available on the Internet, all you have to do is rent space on such a server and use your Internet connection to save your web site on it. 

To sell online you can make use of all this technology, even if you know no more than explained on this page.

This is because shopping cart software such as ShopFactory can take care of all the complex techical bits — from creating your online shop right through to publishing it on the Internet.