A fast, beautiful website that feels properly yours.
No jargon and no agency runaround. You work directly with me. I'm Ian. I will build your new website and show it to you before you pay a single penny. You get a fully managed site that loads fast and turns visitors into clients. It is also incredibly easy to update yourself.
Trusted to build and maintain websites for Academics Stand Against Poverty, Froxfield Parish Council and The Brave.
Designed for you. Editable by you. Managed and backed up by us.
Update and develop your website through Sauro CMS, undo mistakes using version history, and contact Ian directly whenever you need help.
What you get
A beautiful website is only the beginning
AI tools and page builders can create attractive pages surprisingly quickly. But a dependable business website needs more than a good design.
Velvet Dinosaur takes care of everything behind your website: secure managed hosting, SSL, fast performance, daily backups, ongoing maintenance and continuous updates to Sauro CMS.
Sauro gives you the freedom to develop your website yourself. You can create and update pages, publish news, manage media and keep your content current without needing a developer. If you make a mistake, built-in version history lets you undo it and restore an earlier version with confidence.
Your website also keeps improving. Updates to Sauro are rolled out to our managed websites, with new features and refinements shaped by feedback from the people who use it.
And you are never left to figure things out alone. If you need assistance — or something important goes wrong — you can contact Ian directly: a real person, on hand when you need help. There is no anonymous support queue and no chatbot standing between you and the person responsible for your website.
You get much more than just a pretty design. You receive a fast and secure website that I actively manage for you. You have the freedom to easily grow the site yourself. You also get direct support from a real person whenever you need help.
From free preview to fully supported
See your website before paying. Refine it with us, approve the finished version and leave the technical work to Velvet Dinosaur.
Every step is included in the £99 a month
Request your free previewReview your bespoke preview
We build a working version of your new website before you pay anything. You receive private access for 14 days, allowing you to explore the design, test it on your phone, try the forms and experience the CMS for yourself.
If you do not want to continue, the preview is deleted and you pay nothing.
14 days · free
Refine it for launch
If you love the preview, subscribe and we begin a seven-day refinement period. This includes up to five substantial design or content revisions and ten smaller adjustments, based on your feedback.
We also prepare your domain, email, forms, security, backups and other launch settings.
Up to 7 days
Approve and go live
Once you approve the finished website, we complete the final checks and launch it on your domain. Your forms, email, mobile layout, SSL certificate and essential integrations are tested before launch.
Your first 30 days remain protected by our money-back guarantee.
Launch day
Supported for the future
Your subscription includes hosting, SSL, daily backups, security monitoring, software updates and access to your CMS.
You can also use your customer support area to report technical problems, request reasonable content changes and follow their progress from submission to completion.
Ongoing
- Substantial revision:
- changing the design, structure or content of an existing section.
- Minor adjustment:
- changing text, images, colours, spacing, buttons or other small details.
New functionality, integrations, additional page types or a fundamental change of direction fall outside the allowance and are agreed with you separately.
Ready to launch within seven days, provided we receive the necessary feedback, content and domain access.
One honest price
I build your new website first and send you a private link. You set your own password and try editing everything yourself. You get fourteen days to test it out. We shake hands and walk away if you decide it is not a good fit. The preview simply gets deleted and costs you absolutely nothing. If you love it you pay one flat monthly price that covers everything. Everything is laid out in a plain English agreement for you to read before you sign.
Read the full service agreement →
- Custom design & build
- Hosting, SSL & daily backups
- Sauro CMS — edit it yourself
- Software updates & maintenance
- Email for your domain
- Small content changes done for you
“Phenomenal service and end result from a phenomenal chap. Ian went far beyond expectations and built a site that is user-friendly, strategic, and genuinely tailored to our audience.”
