I've used 1&1.co.uk and they are really good. At the time I registered a domain with them and signed up to Instant webpage or whatever its called it was very reasonably priced. When I left them about a year later I even got a refund of the money I had just paid for a further twelve months and signing my domain over to another host was very simple. I only left them because I really struggled with their online website editor and found a better one with another host, but if you're going to make your website the proper way and upload your own files then I would highly recommend them. Incidentally if you're new to website creating then I would also recommend a book called "Creating Web Sites" by Matthew McDonald in "The Missing Manual" series published by Pogue Press. Its a really good book for beginners.