Yahoo Web Hosting Tabs

I'm working on a Yahoo Web Hosting site again. It appears to me, after a quick glance, that Yahoo Web Hosting is organized under 3 tabs:

• Domain
• Web Hosting
• Store

The 3 tabs interrelate in an interesting way:

It appears that the first tab, Domain, establishes the domain you are working on. Once a domain is chosen, it carries over to the next tab.

The next tab is Web Hosting. In the Web Hosting tab, you can change domains by either going back to the Domain tab or you can use a pull-down menu under Web Hosting that does the same thing.

So, basically you have two ways to change domains. Under the Domain tab itself or under the domain pull-down menu found underneath the Web Hosting tab.

Looks like I will be spending very little time today on Yahoo Web Hosting. What appeared to be a problem is not a problem at all.

Years ago I worked on a Yahoo Store. That's what the third tab appears to me to be all about. The Store tab suggests that you have a Yahoo Store or could potentially set one up.

Yahoo Store is a dedicated e-commerce store interface. The last time I worked on it, it was totally separate from Yahoo Web Hosting.

Basically, Yahoo Store is a way to setup your shopping cart.

Whereas most shopping carts involve third party software that is not native to the web hosting company, Yahoo Store is entirely native to Yahoo. It is their dedicated store platform. Again, I'm remembering back several years.

Here's an article on the history of Yahoo Store:

Viaweb

As you can see, Yahoo Store was purchased from another company. It was than integrated into Yahoo's other online services. Knowing this history, it is easier to appreciate why Store is its own tab. Yahoo Store came before Yahoo Web Hosting (I'm guessing) and is a completely separate and distinct entity because of this history.

Fortunately, I don't have to deal with any of this today. As said up above, I have no problem to fix at this time.

Sometimes the easiest fixes come when I'm doing little or nothing. While writing this article, I discovered that the fill-in form on my client's website was working after all and so there is no need for me to worry about Yahoo Web Hosting today.

Ed Abbott