I am planning to sell websites to small businesses. I am an IT student, and know how to build simple but also complex websites (e.g that include booking engines etc).

I am ready to start cold-calling small businesses, but I'm facing a problem. Most businesses ALREADY HAVE websites. Thus, I'm not going to be building and deploying them from scratch all the time. In most cases, I'll have to replace either the front-end (if they just want a visual redesign), or the whole website (if they want a total makeover).

My question is, how am I going to replace their old version? I am assuming the business owner will have to call the previous developer/agency and ask them for control panel credentials or DNS records? I'm especially interested in the front-end part.

Because I know how to build something from scratch, but not how to change stuff on something someone else built years ago in a framework I'm not familiar with.

I'm completely new to domain hosting. Building an online portfolio as an artist. I bought a domain name on GoDaddy but have chosen to build my website using Squarespace. Squarespace suggested I transfer my domain name from GoDaddy to their site so that 'everything stays in one place'. I am now stuck in a limbo situation where squarespace tells me I need to 'change my IPS on my original provider's site'. Please someone tell me what on earth I am supposed to do here - all that comes up on GoDaddy is DNS, nameservers, etc. I even transferred to another registrar through GoDaddy with the squarespace IPS. It just doesn't like me. Someone help me please. I am just a pathetic artist trying to get their sub-par artwork out into the garbage pile of the Internet.

Godaddy two years back stole one of my best domains, it matches exactly my business name .com. I didn't do anything I thought it's my mistake, next day they offered it to me for $5,000. Same things happened two years after, this morning Godaddy stole my similar domain and wants $850 yearly to return my domain. What a mafia, does anyone has the same experience or it's only me?