Having trouble linking to your Etsy store?

A few weeks ago I added my Etsy.com store to my site.

I thought it would be easy solution to doing my own e-com, which is hard. I know hard. When I had a e-comerence shop hosted one my site, I was handcoding roll-overs and the info for many, many Paypal buttons.

Just copy the link from my store and add it. But strangely, I was wrong. I kept getting a page that said “Uh oh! No user ID was sent..”
“But it’s the link to my store!” I yelled in my head in frustration!

The solution is sub-domains. Etsy makes your username a sub-domain that redirects to your store. It has to do with PHP. My store/user name is Gwendolynart, so the link is http://gwendolynart.etsy.com redirects to my store http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5906258.