I work with words. Images bamboozle me. I know what I like, and I'd love to share the ability to make beautiful pictures and visually amazing posters with my kids, but I really struggle.

However, in recent times I have found some fantastic ipads apps that allow me to create cool posters and websites and stuff with my kids. Of course, their domains are registered and WordPress installed, but as a way to practice the fine art of making words look good I've found these tools really useful. So of course I wanted to share them with our readers. Here are three apps that offer templates and process for designing that help those of us who find the visual world challenging. They are presented as apps that are great for GeekDads to use with their kids to help design and create for school, for the web and for fun.

Phoster ($1.99)

This poster-making app allows you to create fantastically designed posters with little need for graphic design knowledge. It offers a wide range of templates, and the option to change text, images and colors giving a wide and useful amount of variation to make those of us challenged by visually creative activity feel capable. It is an app worth the couple of dollars it offers. Of course, a color printer comes in handy with this one.

My children have used it to create posters for their room, as the front cover to school projects and to share messages and news with family and friends. They can do this because the app offers a wide range of sharing and downloading options.

Zapd (Free)

Ok. So, it doesn't produce amazingly complex websites, but this app does for simple and creative websites what Phoster does for posters. Again, it runs on themes and set templates and is more about sharing photos or images, but for younger children who want to have a go at building a web presence you can't go wrong with Zapd. The app lets you build as many individual websites as you like, and for geeklets keen to develop a site to express their love of Doctor Who, Minecraft or Phineas and Ferb this app is perfect.

Logo Maker ($2.99)

Yes, that is "Logo Maker," not "Lego Maker." My boys have been keen on writing and creating their own comics and stop animations, and thought it would be good to create their own production company (as you do when you are 8 and 10). This tool was a great one for them to muck around and help them design their own logo for said company. In fact, this is a terrible app if you want to create a logo for an actual business, but a great one for offering a range of cheesy, humorous and fun logos for children's projects and activities. It offers a suite of design options for text, for objects that make great logos, and colors. It works wonderfully with the previous two apps.