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📅 Skip the Queue – Book Your Slot Online!

We know your time is precious, so we’ve made it easier than ever to get the help you need. Our new Online Booking Service is officially live!

Whether you have a “pesky” laptop that needs a look-over at our repair bench, or you want to sit down and discuss a new website project, you can now reserve your time with just a few clicks. It’s all about making your experience at Bluesdigital as smooth as possible.

How we can help you today:

  • Computer Repairs: Book a slot to drop off your tech for a professional diagnosis.
  • Web Design Consultations: Sit down with us to plan your new site or a refresh.
  • General Tech Chat: Not sure what you need? Book a time to talk it through!

🔗 Ready to book? Click HERE to reserve your time

Your Local Digital Service Hub 🌐🛠️

As your local computer shop in Newtown and specialists in affordable web design in Mid-Wales, we love finding tech solutions that actually work for people. If you’d like a similar booking system for your own business or group, we can help with that too!

Find us at Frolic House: ☎️ Call: 01686 610 106 📱 Text: 0783 222 7823 📍 Visit us: Frolic House, Newtown (Between the Medical Practice & Driving Test Centre)

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🌐A Little Help with WordPress🌐

A Local Entrepreneur needed a little website help with starting a new website.
After chatting about options for hosting and domain names, etc., she got stuck in & set up her own website!

A few days later, she got back in touch for some help with a few things.

First off was finalising the server & domain name settings via her chosen hosts 123.Reg.
Which can be a little confusing if you are new to this.

Then it was some tweaks to the main page alignment & sorting an image size issue on the “About” page.

Next was sorting out the formatting on the “Event Prop Hire”, as it was displaying some random text & images from a theme.
The best way to sort this kind of stuff out is to start with a blank page, without any “sample” content, and start building columns etc.
That way it displays nicely on any device, and is a lot easier to manage for a newbie!

Finally it was time to sort out the “Contact” page & form.
One of my personal Fav’s is “Contact Form 7”, as it’s pretty straightforward to get on with, and just works.

🛠️ Getting stuck into your own website build?

It’s great to see local entrepreneurs taking the lead on their online presence. As anyone who has wrestled with domain settings or “sample text” knows, sometimes you just need a bit of guidance to get it over the finish line.

If you’re looking for web design in Newtown—whether it’s a full build from scratch or just some expert help to tidy up columns, forms, and formatting—We’re here to help you get it right.

📱 01686 610 106 | 💬 0783 222 7823 📍 Newtown’s local website helper, helping you build with confidence.

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Weddings, Windows, Cloning and Website changes

An AI-generated image of printed wedding order of service cards in a chest with flowers on the forest floor

Wedding ‘Order of Service’ Cards

First job on the card today is some really pretty Wedding ‘Order of Service’ Cards. The Client did a great job designing it in Canva, so it was straightforward to complete quickly and efficiently, as always.

Windows 11 Upgrade Problems

Then it was time to delve into it, sickly Acer 💻 that’s refusing to boot up. This turned out to be an incompatibility with the Windows 11 upgrade. One nice, clean Windows 10 later, and it’s back with the client.

Cloning of a Client’s PC onto a Larger SSD

Next up, it’s time to clone a client’s pc onto a larger SSD. After some initial grumpiness from the original Windows installation, everything went reasonably smoothly, Phew!

Strip Down & Rebuild of a WordPress site

Last job, for this productive day, time to strip down & rebuild a WordPress site. They have been having problems with the plug-ins used to build the original site, so I advised a fresh start by removing pretty much all of the software and setting it up from scratch.

Kettle on…..

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Website Glitches, MS “Teams” & Boxing

Friday morning & we are off to a flying start on some repairs to a client’s website.
It’s an E-Commerce Website that has not been sending emails correctly for a couple of day’s, which can be a pain!
After some input from Microsoft Office 365 Team (which wasn’t really helpful), checking all the plug-in’s, nothing seemed out of place. However, it has now just started working again ?!?!
And now there’s an update available for the Website Mail Plug-in…..
Look’s like they have found an error and sorted it on the quiet.

Next up is a client who’s having issues with Microsoft Teams & Zoom meetings.
He’s also had a bit of malware playing with his drivers for the microphone on his laptop, making things worse.
After a quick clean-up of the malware & installing the proper “Teams” & “Zoom” app’s, instead of using his browser, thing’s started to work correctly.

Then it’s some laminated A3 & A4 posters for the Newtown Amateur Boxing Club.

Another client drops in with more problems on MS Teams…….. Hmm, Beginning to smell a rat here!
Re-installing “Teams” does the trick again. Methinks Microsoft have been having a few bad day’s of late.

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Website Updates

A client has been having problems with the PayPal Payment System on his website. It’s not been sending his customers contact number, which can cause problems with deliveries etc. These issues prompted some necessary Website Updates to improve the site’s functionality.

After little to no help from PayPal (Grrrrr), we found out that it was a problem with the payment software, it was a matter of safely backing up the site, removing the offending Plug-In, replacing it, setting it up, test, test & test again!

All done in 2 hours flat, another happy customer.

Now, time to update my own website, as I’m extending the opening hours to 5:30 pm, due to customer demand. Then it’s off to Google, Bing & Apple Maps to inform them of the new times.

Then I’ll have just enough time to get some scheduled maintenance done on the other websites that I look after. A lot of it is done automatically, but I also like to do a thorough check-up of each website and a complete backup manually too, every month, to be archived securely off & on-line.

Now the websites are nicely updated, time for a coffee!

✨ Need help with a website that’s misbehaving or due for an update?


Alongside friendly website design in Newtown, we also handle website fixes, payment system issues, updates, and ongoing maintenance — keeping your site running smoothly and your customers happy.

💻 Website design • Updates & fixes • Payment system support • Maintenance
📍 Local support, right here in the shop

🏠 Pop in to see us at Frolic House, between the Medical Practice 🏥 and Driving Test Centre 🚗
📞 Call 01686 610 106 | 💬 Message 0783 222 7823

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