About Jim King

I am the founder and president of Wheaton Website Services. Founded in 2008, Wheaton Website Services is a website design, development and hosting company. My first company was an online invitation and photo gift company started in 1997. That was my start with website design and development and where I learned to build websites that run flawlessly.

Conversion Rate Optimization with Google Analytics

One of the great things about having a website is to be able to track what visitors are doing. This data gives you accurate information you can use to make educated, informed decisions about changes to your site. Conversion rate optimization is the most obvious goal for your website.  If you need a refresher on

By |2020-10-20T09:04:36-05:00February 17th, 2020|Google Analytics|0 Comments

Why building a brand is the most viable SEO strategy

Reading time: 3 minutes. Wheaton Website Services believes this blog underscores the heart of whether you can/will be successful, and that is based on if you have a brand or not. Not that you have an on-going company, and no matter how successful you currently are, if you do not have a brand, you

By |2020-07-31T08:22:32-05:00February 3rd, 2020|Branding|0 Comments

Why Update to PHP 7?

What is PHP? PHP is a server-side software language used in most websites, including WordPress and Zen Cart. Like all software, it is continually updated, fixed and improved. Why Should I Upgrade? Security - older versions are no longer receiving security patches. If you are not using PHP 7, your site is at risk.

By |2020-07-31T08:44:36-05:00January 13th, 2020|Website Administration, Upgrades & Patches|0 Comments

Benefits of Webmaster Tools and Search Console Accounts

Webmaster Tools are offered by both Google and Bing (edit: Google now calls theirs Search Console). They are easy to set-up and can help identify and fix issues with your website. What kind of issues? Recommendations to improve the ranking of your website. Problems accessing your website. Tips for helping them index all your

By |2020-10-20T12:16:34-05:00December 20th, 2019|Marketing, Website Administration|0 Comments

Wheaton Website Services acquires Architect Marketing Solutions

Wheaton Website Services has acquired Architect Marketing Solutions Wheaton Website Services has acquired Architect Marketing Solutions (https://www.architectmarketingsolutions.com/) as part of our ongoing goal to help our clients be successful. Wheaton Website Services was founded with the goal of helping e-commerce businesses be successful. Our history goes back to selling invitations and photo gifts online

By |2019-12-04T10:44:55-06:00December 4th, 2019|News|0 Comments

Zen Cart 1.5.6 Released

Zen Cart 1.5.6 Released The Zen Cart development team has released version 1.5.6 The most notable improvements and bugfixes in v1.5.6 since v1.5.5 include: Core - Updated dozens of files for compatibility with PHP 7.2 and also 7.3 Admin - Sales-Report graphs on Admin dashboard Checkout - customer confirmation emails now include customer

By |2019-08-28T14:21:27-05:00December 11th, 2018|Upgrades & Patches, Zen Cart|0 Comments

Zen Cart 1.5.5f Released

The Zen Cart development team has released version 1.5.5f Zen Cart 1.5.5f Released, what's different? - Checkout - As a help to people getting PayPal TLS notifications, the CURL Testing tool now reports compatibility with tlstest.paypal.com. - Checkout - Square Payments support is now built-in. Start taking credit card payments in just 5 minutes! See

By |2019-11-06T21:43:39-06:00January 3rd, 2018|Upgrades & Patches, Zen Cart|0 Comments

Google Chrome SSL Security Alert

Beginning in October 2017, Google's Chrome will display a "NOT SECURE” warning when users enter a page on your site that has a form. This is just another move by Google to encourage website owners to use https site-wide. They already give a boost to site rankings for https pages. The Chrome browser controls 59%

By |2019-12-08T21:22:39-06:00September 11th, 2017|Website Administration|0 Comments

Data Import Export for Process Automation

As your business grows, your needs change. You'll find you need to integrate and automate processes. One of those processes might require data import or export. Data Import The import and export of data is the automated or semi-automated input and output of data sets between different software applications. Over the years, we have set-up

By |2019-11-06T21:47:48-06:00June 13th, 2017|Zen Cart|0 Comments

Zen Cart 1.5.5e released

The Zen Cart development team has released version 1.5.5e Changes in Zen Cart 1.5.5e include: Upgrade PHPMailer from 5.2.21 to 5.2.22 Update gmail support to use TLS per published standards Fix bug introduced in v1.5.5c related to deleting customers Add built-in support for new .htaccess rules required for Apache 2.4, so mod_compat doesn't need to be

By |2019-11-06T21:48:11-06:00March 12th, 2017|Zen Cart|0 Comments
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