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…

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…

  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…

  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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…