GermWorks - Web Design & Life

Just finished another website this time for a Bunbury (South West) business who provide driver training and licences for trucks. Trucks are very important for Australia with most of the countries resources (iron ore etc) and providing fuel and food for the country transported by trucks. The old saying is that if trucks were not […]

If your a user of WordPress or even someone who reads WordPress sites you have probably seen in the comments section these two words: “Trackback and Pingback”. What do they mean and what are there purposes?
Basically a Trackback and a Pingback is the same thing and is for when you link to another website or […]

We all want our websites to be continually visited, read and linked too. One way is via social bookmarks like Diggit, StumbleUpon, Delicous etc but what about another method that will make sure your viewer sees your website every time they fire up their Internet browser?
Yes I am talking about a simple Plugin or JavaScript […]

Just today I have read a few articles on church website design. Like saying what is important and what are the top designs out there. I have two lists for you. One is a top 50 from a designer and the other is a top 80 from a church community.
As you can see the lists […]

What a big week this is for Australia! First the HMAS Sydney has been found along with the German ship that sunk the HMS Sydney however along with the ships that have been found, something else has been found and been released that will continue to make news for all Australians…
Have I drumed it up […]

With the new release of Kick2Kick.net it has me asking and wondering a question and so I thought I would ask you my readers and see if you have any better ideas than me. The question is: I have two blogs I want to promote including when I comment on other peoples blogs but how […]

Freelance Freedom is a comic that is released by FreelanceSwitch and they deal with the conflict that every designer has to deal with and get frustrated by.
The conflict is that just because you own Photoshop or another graphic software it does not make you a designer. Just as if you own a stethoscope or a […]

Back in November last year I raised some issues I have with WordPress as a Content Management System. Last week I was allowed to have a sneak peak at the new WordPress 2.5 dashboard and boy was I impressed.
I have two main grips about WordPress. One) Navigation limitation and Two) the dashboard/ admin area and […]

Last week I made mention of me about to release something big! I gave clues about it helping expats of other countries living in Australia and so today is the official time I let the general public know what that is.
So without any further deley, I introduce Kick2Kick.net which is a website showing by different […]

One thing that gets me is designers (no names mentioned) who code their images using title and alt tags. Some believe that it is for SEO purposes and that using both gives you better results and others try and be too accessible and include everything.
This post will try and explain the real purpose of alt […]