Hi I am new

Since it miscellaneous I thought I drop by to say hello since I be using wordpress soon… planning to subscribe to one of the wordpress host. There is so many host in the host section so~ any recommendation for a newbies like myself? I haven’t been blogging much and have almost no idea how MySqL and php and wordpress really solve all this problem… I do have some knowledge of web design css and hope to be able to come out with own design…

I have tried with local MySqL and php and thing does work quite well for the time being and wonder is there any different between using localhost and a real host. Setting up on a local host do I presume that it will work exactly the same when I subscribe to them?