wow - that sounds unfortunate ..
I'm not an expert at webhosting - I can close this post and you can start fresh one with the question, maybe the better way to go...let me know when you have started a new post
with a more appropriate title ....
The small scale work I used to do, involved two methods
1) Web Hosting - this used a company which hosted the site, files, images etc , and you can purchased the domain from them at the same time, along with emails etc , the domain information would then be assigned to the companies webservers - this can take 2-3 days for the domain to be recognised by all the domain name servers So when you type in
www.mydomainname.co.uk - it will use the DNS domain name servers - look up the IP address and be pointed to the company servers, which then point to your files and open your webpage.
1a)Web Hosting companies are also transfer domain names from other companies - so changing hosting, should nto be a problem
1b) I assume your company owns the domain names as is the admin - sites like
http://whois.domaintools.com/ will lookup the domain and tell you who owns it
Nominet is the UK based domain names
http://www.nic.uk/ and they often send out the reminders for re-registration of your domain name -
2) The next method - is to use free webspace, most broadband supplies in the UK also offer 100MB of webspace that you can copy your web files to - that will be called something like
www.ntl.co.uk/user/my_username
Now that does not look great as a domain - so you can get webforwarding sites where you buy the domain name and then forward to the free address - so
www.mydomainname.co.uk - will then forward to
www.ntl.co.uk/user/my_username and it looks like its the domain - they also offer email address ,
www.123-reg.co.uk and
www.freeparking.co.uk are examples of this
With Google sites - making it very easy to create a website of your own using templates
https://www.google.com/accounts/Ser...google.com/&service=jotspot&passive=true&ul=1
you choose a name and the website address is something like
https://sites.google.com/site/etafwsw/ (this is one I just made) and you can then use a domain name and one of the forwarding sites, you can point to it like
www.kbwc.co.uk - NOT quite the same site - but something a friend is playing with -
Most webhosting will have all sorts of monthly packages, which will include x free email address with your domain name , so you can setup employees with there own email address
It will have all sorts of scripts that can be run, so you can have enquiry forms, databases like mysql etc
Hope that helps a little - as I say, I really am not an expert here, i
dabbled in the UK for a few years, with this starting about 1998 - and stopped 2002/3 ish time scale,
so create another post in the web design forum, and title something about how easy and what are the pitfalls for changing hosting company and you should get a lot more upto date advice