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Why Wait For The Opportunity? Create Your Own! Why Wait For The Opportunity? Create Your Own!

  As many people who work in a creative field like design and development may already know, sometimes our clients just do not understand what it is that we are trying to achieve. The boundaries that we are seeking to push…

Art Inspiration For The Weekend Art Inspiration For The Weekend

In a creative field like design, we face an undeniable truth: our wells of inspiration are bound to run dry from time to time. In those periods of imaginative downtime, we seek out sources that can help us return the…


What Is The Worst Design or Programming Mistake You’ve Ever Made? What Is The Worst Design or Programming Mistake You’ve Ever Made?

  Mistakes are made every day in the design and development world. It’s nothing to be ashamed of; it happens. In fact, mistakes are one of the most powerful learning tools at our disposal. Our mistakes impart important lessons that we…

What Is The Last Thing You Do Before You Launch A Website? What Is The Last Thing You Do Before You Launch A Website?

  One thing that can be said about human beings is that we are, by and large, creatures of habit. We establish routines, consciously and subconsciously, that help us accomplish tasks or move us more quickly or comfortably through our…

Outstanding Free Ebooks on Design Outstanding Free Ebooks on Design

Given that one of the most important things any designer can do, is to always be learning, we thought we would take a look through a few free Ebooks to suggest them to our readers. (It is important to note,…

An Introduction to the WordPress Loop An Introduction to the WordPress Loop

We are beginning a new series here on Arbenting for our readers where we take things back to basics, and this post on the WordPress Loop is the first in that Design 101 series. We hope that it is helpful…

Graybox : A Set of 37 Free Web Icons Graybox : A Set of 37 Free Web Icons

We wanted to send all of our readers into the weekend with a new freebie from us, so Angie put together a pack of icons, given that we had not made a new set in a while. So with clouds…

Arbenting Asks Aloud : Is The Client Always Right? Arbenting Asks Aloud : Is The Client Always Right?

March is officially upon us and besides the madness that it apparently sparks in some college basketball circuits, do you know what that means? That’s right, it’s time for another discussion here on Arbenting, and this month we are tackling…

A Month Full of Found Freebies: A February Roundup A Month Full of Found Freebies: A February Roundup

February ran right passed us and left some fantastic freebies behind as it dashed into the yesterday, and like we do each month we took the time to compile our favorite community additions to the freebie resource pool. And though…

Social Media Profiteering — The Other Bad Tweet Social Media Profiteering — The Other Bad Tweet

Recently Rob wrote a post over at MyInkBlog that discussed social media, and through the comments we began wondering what most people use social media for. While Angie and I were having this discussion, a truly horrible thing happened. A…

The Basics of Brand Building — The How The Basics of Brand Building — The How

The Road So Far: The Intro The Who — Your Name Here What — The Business Model When — Timing and Networking Where — Marketing Might Why — The Community Connection As you set out on the branding course, you…

The Basics of Brand Building — The When The Basics of Brand Building — The When

Previously, on Arbenting: The Basics of Brand Building — The What, carried on the discussion of brand building basics in this new series, further delving into the idea behind it. As a freelance desidev you are competing against an established…

The Week Before Christmas! (a freelance parody) The Week Before Christmas! (a freelance parody)

As so many are gathering to celebrate with kith and kin, we wanted to offer a cheerful sentiment to all of our readers and also feature a few user submitted pieces from the Arbenting Flickr Group by neslirawles. So we…

Freelance Advice Fridays! 12/11/09 Freelance Advice Fridays! 12/11/09

Here on Arbenting Freebies, we wanted to start doing a bit more of a public service kind of outreach, so we decided that on Fridays, from time to time, we would drop in with five quick tips that we have…

An Arbenting Week of Wallpapers An Arbenting Week of Wallpapers

Upcoming on Arbenting we will be presenting a week of wallpapers to kick off the re-launch of the blog. We decided a while ago that when we came back with Arbenting Freebies that we would do so with a vengeance.…

Arbenting Take Two — Getting Bent Once Again! Arbenting Take Two — Getting Bent Once Again!

Arbenting returns with a new incarnation of the site focusing strictly on freebies. You didn’t think that we could stay away from you forever, did you? Not quite, just like Jay-Z, baby, we’re back. Now don’t mistake what we are…

Arbent to Fuel Your Creativity! Arbent to Fuel Your Creativity!

So things have been very hectic and exciting over the past couple of weeks as deals were proposed and finalized, which has altered the course for the Arbenting network of sites. I say altered, but in point of fact, the…

A Minor Change, an Anniversary, and Gratitude…Oh My! A Minor Change, an Anniversary, and Gratitude…Oh My!

So we have been reworking our schedule of posts here at the blog, which is why there was no weekly rundown this week. We are moving those posts to Fridays, though the timeslot is the only change that will be…

Freelancing Benefits Episode 3 : Revenge of the Myth Freelancing Benefits Episode 3 : Revenge of the Myth

Long Way Down (One Last Thing) So this series has wound its way down to its final installment, bringing our look at both sides of the freelancing coin to an end. We are very pleased with the scope of the…

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