Arbenting's second part of their look at the costs of being a freelancer.

Jacek Yerka is a Polish surreal artist and painter from Toruń. Yerka studied art for a short time at University, but then learnt from direct study of Northern European masters, the Van Eycks, Dierck Bouts, Robert Campin, Bosch, and surrealists such as Magritte.

Hurry up for amazing foxy lady illustration! Free download! :)

Outlook 2007. Most businesses use it every day as part of their communication with clients and the outside world but its effect on email marketing campaigns has been significant. Microsoft’s aim of ignoring web standards and making html almost a foreign language has meant HTML email design is even harder work.

Photoshop is a standard software in graphic design for web graphics, Print Graphic design and more. Most of the designers often relies on Photoshop brushes for their design projects.

Google has an excellent philosophy, they keep it simple. I use Google everyday and love minimal design more than anyone else, but when a company as large as Google stops enhancing their designs, we have a problem.

A set of 15 high resolution abstract textures from Arbenting free for commercial and personal use.

Whether you are a freelancer or you work for a design agency, getting your name spread in the design community should be a top priority

The color green is predominant in the sites of our days, either being represented by leaves, landscapes or by not very ordinary characters. Among the CSS and Flash sites found in this article as well as in part 2 or part 3 you will find some that were simply touched by their designer’s creativity and which pushed them to true web art and also sites which impress with their usability.

Nick La, a Toronto-based web designer and the creator of N.Design Studio, Web Designer Wall, and Best Web Gallery, shares his web design and personal experience.

Here's an early Christmas present a free christmas themed HTML email template!

As the Christmas approaches, it’s time to get a new look to your desktop. In this post we present 40 Creative Christmas Wallpapers to decorate your desktop in a personal and special way. Happy Christmas to you!!!

CSSBuilt choose 10 sites as best of CSS design as of November in no particular order. Enjoy!

Winter is just around the corner! Learn how to create christmas ice text with snowflakes.

20 Free Vector Icons for Web Designers

Arbenting's best of the design web for the week of November 23 - November 29, 2008

David Waters is a student at Graphic Design with the University of Idaho and he’s providing today’s inspiration with his photomanips, print creations and a website design that has a touch of creativity.

Textures is very popular on today's web design specially for big backgrounds. So here's the 6 high quality textures free for download.

Custom conditional function for WordPress to check if the current page is a sub page. It works both inside and outside the main loop, only for 2.5 and upwards.

There are a lot of lists of color tools out there, but how many turn out to be of any use? The best tools are user friendly, easily customizable and provide you with every code or file format that you need.