Portland Web Design & Development Services

WordPress, WooCommerce & Magento support for businesses that rely on their website to operate.

Since 2002, Watermelon Web Works has helped Portland-area companies redesign, repair, speed up, secure, and maintain websites that generate leads and revenue. If your site is slow, outdated, hacked, or hard to manage, we’ll help you get it stable and performing again.

Talk to a developer: Contact us or call (971) 645-4352.


What we help with

  • Website redesign (modern layout, clearer messaging, better conversions)
  • WordPress development (custom builds, fixes, integrations)
  • WooCommerce development (ecommerce improvements, checkout, performance)
  • Magento development + speed optimization (stability, performance, infrastructure)
  • WordPress maintenance + security (updates, monitoring, malware response)

We work with organizations across Portland, Beaverton, Lake Oswego, Tigard, Hillsboro, and Vancouver, WA.


Website Redesign

If your site feels dated, confusing, or underperforming, a redesign is usually the fastest path to better conversion rates. We focus on clarity, speed, and SEO-friendly structure, without breaking what already works.

  • Design refresh + UX improvements
  • Mobile-first cleanup
  • Speed and Core Web Vitals improvements
  • SEO-safe rebuilds and migrations

Website Redesign Services


Portland WordPress Development

We build and support WordPress sites that need reliability, performance, and clean technical foundations. Ideal for businesses with real-world constraints, staff turnover, and long-term needs.

  • Custom theme development
  • Plugin troubleshooting and fixes
  • Performance optimization
  • API integrations and automation
  • Legacy cleanup and stabilization

Portland WordPress Development

Ongoing support: WordPress Maintenance and WordPress Security


Portland WooCommerce Development

WooCommerce is flexible, but it needs careful configuration to stay fast and dependable. We help ecommerce businesses improve customer experience and reduce operational friction.

  • Store setup and rebuilds
  • Checkout improvements
  • Payment, shipping, tax integrations
  • Speed tuning for product and category pages
  • Conversion-focused UX cleanup

Portland WooCommerce Development


Magento Development & Speed Optimization

Magento can be excellent, but slow or unstable installs are common. We specialize in diagnosing what’s actually causing performance issues and stabilizing production stores.

  • Magento speed optimization
  • Server and caching configuration
  • Extension conflicts and debugging
  • Security hardening
  • Infrastructure consultation

Magento Development Services
Magento Speed Optimization


Maintenance, Security & Hosting

If your team needs the site to “just work,” maintenance is the difference between constant interruptions and steady momentum. We handle updates, monitoring, and security so you don’t have to.

  • Updates (core, plugins, themes)
  • Security monitoring and malware response
  • Backups and recovery planning
  • Performance monitoring
  • Technical support

WordPress Maintenance


Get help from a Portland web development team

If you can describe what’s broken (or what you want improved), we can tell you the most practical next step.

Contact Watermelon Web Works or call (971) 645-4352.

What Our Clients Say

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OMS Anita
2 years ago
Watermelon Web Works has been incredible to work with. They are patient, understanding, and quick to answer any questions (or emergencies) you might have. After switching over to them to help re-vamp our online retail store, we hired them to build our wholesale website as well. I can't recommend them enough - Thank you team!
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Garrett Lister
2 years ago
Jared and the watermelon team were great - they quickly interpreted our website needs and designed a wonderful site. The project management site worked great to keep track of project.
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N B
3 years ago
My previous web developer who I was very happy with retired and I was pretty sad about it because it seems now days it is hard to hire a web developer close by with a good set of skills who is interested in helping small business at reasonable prices. Then I found Watermelon and I have been very happy. They are responsive, are able to solve problems, and work at reasonable prices.
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Dark Star Magick
3 years ago
We hired Watermelon to help us with our website. They were very thorough and took the time to explain in layman's terms what they were doing and how we could improve SEO and site functionality. We will definitely be back for future website needs!
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Astoria Column
3 years ago
Great work and amazing service! We're a non-profit, and our priorities are always focused on maintaining the Astoria Column. We had a website built by someone else a few years ago, but without regular updating and maintenance, sections of our site were no longer functional. Joanna and the rest of the team came in and had everything working within a week and it's been smooth sailing since then!
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Ben Harris
7 years ago
Watermelon has been a fantastic web development partner. Through every phase of our project they have always been 100% responsive to our requests and have always provided highly knowledgeable, creative, prompt, and personable team members to work with. As a financial institution we’re always concerned about the security and maintenance or our website and Watermelon has always provided the appropriate resources in order to meet and/or exceed our compliance and security requirements. We would surely refer them to any business associates looking for a qualified WordPress web designer in the future. – Denali Federal Credit Union
Watermelon Web Works did a great job creating a custom shopping cart page for our firm. Gavynn in particular was especially helpful and responsive. We appreciated the upfront costs and the technical competency of Watermelon Web Works and would not hesitate to work with the people there again.
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Kim Markle
7 years ago
Our company has been working with the Watermelon team for more than 10 years to help build and grow our website and customer portal. They are not only extremely talented and responsive, but are continuously looking for ways for us to enhance our current website. They are consistent, provide excellent customer service and really know what they are doing. Highly recommend!
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Rick Brodner
9 years ago
I cannot say enough good things about Watermelon. They are terrific communicators, highly competent coders, and really, really nice people. They were instrumental in helping us to assemble a very usable, easily maintainable website for our organization. They' have demonstrated great flexibility in accommodating our evolving needs. They have been highly responsive to any technical issues, typically resolving them in less than 4 hours. Watermelon Web Works will make your organization better, and your CFO/Treasurer will be happy when they see the bill - what more can you ask for?