Experts in Website Design and Development
Wheaton Website Services is an expert in Zen Cart, Shopify, Big Commerce and WordPress/WooCommerce with over 22 years of experience both building and running online businesses.
We provide both website design and website development as well as hosting services. Most of our clients are small or medium-sized businesses who do not have full-time IT staff. They need someone to manage their website with them. That’s what we do.
We fix problems, perform upgrades and add new features all to help you improve and grow your business. We work across many industries including architects, lawyers, home owner associations and just about any e-commerce product you can sell online.
Learn how we can help…
Hats and Caps
This client wanted to upgrade their Zen Cart but more importantly, their mobile site was nearly non-functional. The slow speed made it unusable for their clients.
Hats and Caps
Client Need
They wanted to upgrade their Zen Cart to get the newer features and improved security. The newer Zen Cart would also allow them to use a newer version of PHP for added speed and security. The other big goal was an improved mobile site. The pre-built template they bought years ago was not maintained by the author. As a result, it did not work on most modern mobile devices.
Our Solution
The Zen Cart upgrade was the simpler of the needed solutions. We performed the upgrade on a copy of their live site and also upgraded their PHP. For the template, we discussed options. They liked the look and feel of their current site, just not the performance. The decision was made to build a new, custom Zen Cart template styled after the existing one. As part of the process, we updated some of the design elements to bring it more ‘up to date’. Their mobile traffic and revenue have benefited from the improvements.
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Architect
This architect had a very old website. It was not what they needed or wanted and was impossible for them to make even minor edits. It was time for a brand new website. Together we mapped out their needs and build a new website to fulfill those needs.
Architect
Client Need
Their website was old, and looked it. Just as bad, they were unable to make any edits so some of the information was incorrect as well. They wanted a brand new website that better presented the work they do and they type of work they want to do.
Our Solution
We took their ideas and worked with them to create mock-ups of what they wanted their new website to look like. From those, we built a custom WordPress website that clearly highlighted the type or architecture work they do. It also provided big sliders and details about previous jobs they’d completed for prospective clients to review.
The WordPress site allows them to add new projects and make minor edits on their own. This was a requirement of the new site build.
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Custom Clothing
This company has several websites doing both retail and wholesale sales in addition to having multiple brick and mortar locations. They needed to consolidate websites and platforms.
Custom Clothing
Client Need
They had several websites doing both retail and wholesale online sales. They also have several brick and mortar stores selling merchandise. Their websites were on different platforms and they needed to consolidate.
Our Solution
They selected Shopify as their e-commerce platform. They already had a retail website there but now needed their wholesale website. We build a custom theme to compliment their retail site. The wholesale site had to hide prices and require new customers to apply for access. We use a combination of two apps and custom coding to accomplish this for them. They now have three sites on Shopify allowing their staff to be more efficient in managing both the sites and their customers.
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Vintage Plumbing
They’ve had a website since 1999. It had been updated since then but was long overdue for an update to both the look and feel but the functionality too. It was a cobbled together site of static html pages and a Zen Cart for sales.
Vintage Plumbing
Client Need
They’ve had a website since 1999. It had been updated since then but was long overdue for an update to both the look and feel but the functionality too. It was a cobbled together site of static html pages and a Zen Cart for sales.
Our Solution
DEA Bath needed a site they could be proud of and functioned in a way that helped their business instead of held it back. We worked with their website designers in building a new site from scratch using WordPress and WooCommerce. The new site allowed them to accurately display their unique and rare products in a way customers could easily browse and buy. It now looks like a site build in the 2000’s instead of 1999.
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Dog Training and Supplies
Our client had long maintained two websites. A WordPress for their site content and a Zen Cart to sell their products. They wanted a simpler system for maintenance reasons as well as for customer and admin usability.
Dog Training and Supplies
Client Need
Austin Canine Central had long maintained two websites. A WordPress for their site content and a Zen Cart to sell their products. They wanted a simpler system for maintenance reasons as well as for customer and admin usability.
Our Solution
We worked with them and their designer on a new WordPress theme for their content. We then installed WooCommerce, a WordPress plug-in, to fulfill their ecommerce needs. By migrating all of their products from Zen Cart we saved them a ton of time in avoiding having to re-enter and set-up hundreds of products. Now they have one website platform to use and maintain.
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Wood Burning Stoves
Their products, and their customers, require highly detailed information about the stoves sell. To achieve this, they use a high customized Zen Cart website. They needed a developer with a better skill set to support them.
Wood Burning Stoves
Client Need
The products they sell had numerous features and data points. For their clients to know what is right for them, their website needs to display all of this information in a user friendly way. Visitors also need a way to sort, filter and compare based upon this data. Their previous developer was not up to the task.
Our Solution
We’ve created many solutions for this client over the years. One was a customized Stove Search too allow visitors to sort and search based upon any number of custom product data fields added to their Zen Cart. Category and product pages now include icons and text indicating available rush shipping options. Product pages have a count down timer, much like Amazon does, letting the shopper know how much time is left to order and still receive their order the next day. An admin control allows for the addition of holidays to ensure this information is accurate 365 days a year.
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Beauty and Make Up
Ecco Bella had out grown their previous e-commerce site and needed more automation for their growing company. They selected Big Commerce and we built their new site. It integrates with several third-party apps allowing them to be more efficient with existing resources.
Beauty and Make-Up
Client Need
This long-term client has out grown their website. They needed a platform that better integrated with their warehouse, accounting and marketing programs. This would allow more efficient automation for their staff and their clients.
Our Solution
They selected Big Commerce as their e-commerce platform. We built a custom Big Commerce template for their new website based upon the mock-ups provided by their marketing team. We set-up integrations with their warehouse so orders were passed automatically to them for shipment and shipment notifications back to the website and their clients. Part of that integration was also importing into QuickBooks.
Their email, paids ads on several platforms and Google Analytics were also integrated into their website allows all pieces to work together. This allowed their staff and third-party vendors to all have access to the data they needed.
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Golden Retriever Rescue
There website had need been updated in several years and was no longer fulfilling the needs of the rescue or those who visited their website. They needed a full site update and redesign. Over the years, the original logo file had been lost so we created a new, refreshed hi-res logo as well.
Golden Retriever Rescue
Client Need
There website had need been updated in several years and was no longer fulfilling the needs of the rescue or those who visited their website. They needed a full site update and redesign.
Our Solution
The old website had great information but it was poorly organized and did not have enough pictures of those beautiful goldens. We created a complete redesign with input from their key contributors. They gave us lots of great photos so we used them throughout the new website. Since they did not have a hi-res version of their logo, we recreated one while also providing a minor refresh of the look.
Since launching the new site, website traffic and newsletter subscriptions have noticeably increased.
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Custom Jewelry
Our client needed a more modern, mobile friendly website and improved graphics. Their current site was very dated and didn’t give visitors the right impression of their business. We built a custom responsive Zen Cart template and included sleek, modern graphics and icons.
Custom Jewelry
Client Need
They wanted a more modern, mobile friendly website and improved graphics. Their current site was very dated and didn’t give visitors the right impression of their business.
Solution
We built them a custom template for their Zen Cart site based upon mock-ups they provided. We used sleek, modern icons and graphics and they provided updated product images. It includes a custom slider designed for desktop and mobile display, custom product pricing based upon selected product options and custom menus.
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