Hi AM
There are lots of companies out there who can help you.
I buy my domain names and webspace from this lot:
http://www.1and1.co.uk
They are cheap and I've never had any issues with them.
The first year's registration for a .co.uk domain is 99p, then 2.99/y. Peanuts.
Basically you go to the website, check to see if the name you want is available, click [buy] and within a few hours you have the domain name.
Setting up the website is also straightforward. You can either buy a package with your domain name (for example, the 1&1 home package includes webspace and email accounts for £2/m with ten free domain names or something like that).
Alternatively you could buy your hosting space elsewhere. There are loads of providers at varying price points.
One of the sites I don't update very much,
http://www.andyeccles.com is hosted for 50p per month, and I created the site using Joomla.
If you just want a simple few pages with some photographs, you could create it yourself and upload the pages really simply.
In terms of gotchas, not much -just avoid signing up to any lengthy contracts - you may want to change providers if you're not happy.
Clear as mud, eh!?
Cheers
Andy
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and I would like to register a http://www.,,,,.co.uk name for the place. so I can put that link in my magazine advertising etc. so that we are not totally reliant on the letting company, who have said that any weeks that we can let ourselves is ok by them.
