Long Island web design, built by hand.
Rembrandt Designs is a Lynbrook, NY web design company serving small businesses across Nassau County, Long Island and nationwide. We build custom, hand-coded websites that load instantly — no template, no page builder, no WordPress. Most launch the same day you say yes.
Our Long Island web design
approach is hand-coded.
As a Long Island web design company we have chosen to build every site by hand rather than assemble it from a theme. Most small-business sites are dropped into a template and then weighed down by the plugins needed to make that template behave. Writing it ourselves means fewer moving parts, less to break, and nothing loading that your customers never see.
That is not craft for its own sake. It is why the page opens instantly on a phone with one bar on the LIRR platform, and why there is nothing on it that needs patching three years from now.
Website performance you can measure
Measured on this site, on a throttled connection, three runs each, median. Not a target and not a range — you can reproduce them with the developer tools already in your browser.
- 0.16 seconds on 4G
- 0.31 seconds on Fast 3G
- 0.91 seconds on Slow 3G
- 1.51 seconds at 250 kbps with 700 ms of latency — roughly one bar of signal
About 40 kilobytes in total — less than one photo from your phone — loading nothing from anyone else’s servers. No font service, no analytics, no trackers, no chat widget, no cookie banner. Most business websites are measured in megabytes because they fetch all of that before showing a word of your name. It is an optimized mobile experience because there is nothing on it to optimize away.
We do not publish a Google PageSpeed score, because we would rather give you a measurement you can repeat than a number you have to take on faith. Run the test yourself — the address is in your browser bar.
Search engine performance, built in
Fast, well-structured websites perform better in search results — and in a market as competitive as Nassau County, those margins decide who gets the call. Our Long Island web development approach has the advantages built in rather than bolted on:
We do not promise you a ranking, an amount of traffic, or a number of calls. Nobody can promise those honestly. And it is worth knowing where the real weight sits: your Google Business Profile carries roughly a third of local ranking on its own — more than the website. Anyone selling you a site as an SEO strategy is selling you the smaller half.
Security and reliability
Your site is plain HTML files on a server. No database, no admin login, no plugins, no theme. That is not a limitation being dressed up — it is why an entire category of small-business website problems does not apply to yours.
Our web design process,
and very little of your time.
We have kept the process short on purpose. The goal is to take as little of your week as possible and still end up with a website written specifically for your business.
Discovery and planning
One conversation covers your goals, your customers, the services you want front and center, and the towns you actually work in. That is the whole of what we need from you.
Custom design and development
A custom design that reflects your brand, then a hand-coded build — responsive across every device and browser, with real headings, real link text and a menu that works from a keyboard. Copy included; you do not have to write it.
Your contact form texts you the moment somebody fills it in, so an enquiry reaches you while they are still thinking about you rather than sitting in an inbox until the evening.
Testing and launch
Cross-browser checks, mobile testing at seven screen sizes on a throttled connection, and every link and phone number verified before anything goes live. Domain registered and connected — usually the same day.
Serving Lynbrook, Nassau County
and the greater New York area.
We are based in Lynbrook and we understand the business environment here: dense, competitive, and driven by local reputation. We build for businesses throughout the South Shore and beyond — Lynbrook, Rockville Centre, Valley Stream, Malverne, East Rockaway, Hewlett and the Five Towns, Long Beach, Oceanside, Baldwin, Freeport, Garden City, and across Nassau and Suffolk Counties — as well as Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Being a short LIRR ride from the city means we can meet in person when it helps and work remotely when it does not. And the same work goes out to businesses across the rest of the country, where the phone number is the only thing that changes.
A footnote for the locals: in 1894 new arrivals from Brooklyn split the borough’s name down the middle and swapped the halves, which is how Lynbrook got its name. The village has been named after a rearrangement ever since. We like the precedent.
Why choose hand-coded
development.
Our Long Island web design company specializes in hand-coded websites because the approach delivers three advantages a template cannot, and they compound over the years you own the site.
Performance
Hand-coding eliminates the bloat that comes with a content management system. Every line of code serves a purpose, which is why the page loads instantly — including for the large share of local customers searching from a phone, on a train, with one bar.
Long-term value
A custom build can look like the more expensive option on day one. It usually is not by year three: nothing to license, nothing to update, no developer called back in to fix what an automatic plugin update broke. A page built well and left alone keeps working, and the reason most small-business sites rot is not the design — it is the sixteen moving parts nobody was ever going to keep current.
Complete customization
Without the constraints of a template or a theme, the site is exactly what your business needs and nothing else. Every element is designed and written for your brand, your services and your towns — not adapted from a layout built for somebody in another trade in another state.
Transparent pricing for
Long Island businesses.
Custom web design usually arrives as a four-figure invoice before anything exists, and then a separate bill every time a phone number needs changing. This is one rate that covers the build, the domain, the hosting and every change afterwards. No hidden fees.
$297 per month
Everything included. First payment the day you approve the finished site.
No setup fee, no contract and no minimum term. Cancel any time and the service stops at the end of the month you have paid for.
That covers up to ten hand-coded pages, hosting, your domain and its renewal, the security certificate, SEO on every page, your Google Business Profile set up and kept accurate, unlimited content edits done by us, Review Engine and Call Recovery. Full detail on the pricing page, and the common questions are answered in the FAQ.
If a quote you are comparing has a line item you do not understand, send it over. We will tell you what it is even if you never hire us.