I have just completed a site to replace an existing site hosted by YOLA.

Everyone loves it!

But Yola has told the person who made the crude initial site that
they can transfer the domain name (with some effort)
but that they can only host material produced by their software.
This strikes me as odd ...

1) HTML is HTML and universal isn't it?
2 Does this mean Xara's compatibility with other hosting organisations
is not 100% and universal as I understood it to be?

I can wrestle the domain name from Yola ... as it is a charity group's IP -
not the property of the kind volunteer who used their free space to host it
and is possibly pissed off at someone being asked to do it properly.

Finally how do I position the new site with a new host
and maintain the search engine dominance the existing site has.

Xara does not seem to offer search engine optimisation?

Any assistance greatly received.

Martin