Hey guys, today I’m proud to announce that through my design studio – QBKL Media – I’ve released Bold, a smart, minimal and clean CV / resume template packed with nice features.

Bold is a minimal and clean one-page CV / resume template featuring print-ready and mobile-ready versions, downloadable PDF version generated on-the-fly, working Ajax contact form, jQuery lightbox gallery and social media section. It is also very easily editable and configurable.

You might wonder how Bold could help you, the blogger? Well, behind every blogger is a professional and truth is, no matter how much information you add to your resume and how much expertise you have, presentation is a key element.

The setup and configuration of the template is easy and straight forward and basically the time between the moment you finish downloading and the moment you have your full CV online is just a matter of how fast you type!

The Bold CV/resume HTML & PHP template is available for sale through the ThemeForest marketplace at the low price of $10 ($8 for the registered users with cash deposits).

It’s time to look good, be that online professional that everybody talks about!

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One month and 2000 downloads later, the new version of the Simple Balance Free WordPress theme is released.

New options have been added – along with the options of Simple Balance 2.0 – to the theme’s control panel, including:

1. Easy to set up featured post (does not use categories);
2. Google AdSense alternative for both the top and right sidebar ad space;
3. Easy to set up email subscription form; *
4. Page selection for the top menu (only selected parent pages will be displayed);
5. Two brand new color schemes: Blue Bubble and Curly Green

* Works only with Google’s version of FeedBurner. For other versions, code editing is required.

Upgrading from prior versions

If you’re upgrading from 1.0 or 2.0, all you have to do is to copy the new files over the old ones, overwriting those that already exist (if you haven’t done changes to the theme) and adding the new ones.

Once you’ve uploaded the files, by simply entering the theme’s options panel (Design > Simple Balance 2.1 CP) the new options will automatically be installed.

Everything is under control…

… and now it’s time to OWN you WordPress blog!

Have a look!

See the goodies that await you with Simple Balance 2.1.

Get your copy now for FREE and expect more beautiful updates and color schemes every month!

Special thanks go to Shantanu Goel (@shantanugoel)for providing essential help and feedback, and to Ronald Huereca for writing an excellent guide on WordPress custom queries.

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Welcome to another Blogosphere News edition. Today’s topics are: the new interface of WordPress 2.7, the release of WordPress 2.6.3,a debate on the rapid upgrade schedule of WP and the recently released Tell-a-Friend widget.

WordPress 2.7 is getting prettier

With each day that passes, the previews of WordPress 2.7 show us a more and more visually appealing application. After giving people a preview of the WP 2.7 Dashboard (which by the way, Rocks!), the devs are now looking for the perfect icon designer to create an original icon set for WP’s main administration menu.

It’s actually the first time when WordPress introduces icons for their menus and, if you think you got the skills (experience in the field is required), follow this link.

WordPress 2.6.3 is out

Big community, a lot of love, a lot of updates. That’s WordPress. 2.6.3 is out now and it’s supposed to fix a security flaw in the administration dashboard, a vulnerability in the Snoopy library which WordPress uses to display the dashboard feeds.

In regard to the update cycle, Chris Garrett said yesterday:

A number of people have complained to me about the WordPress upgrade cycle. Today I am sure to get more people complaining. Yes, there is yet another WordPress version out.

I think this is amazing. How can you complain if the one application that allows you to get your a*s online in less then 5 minutes, for free, is getting rapid updates? Do you people know how much time I spend waiting for different applications that I use to upgrade, praying that they finally get their bugs fixed? Compared to having no updates, WordPress it’s a blessing!

Tell-a-Friend Widget

The concept behind the Tell-a-Friend widget is not new. Services like ShareThis or AddThis have already been there, but Tell-a-Friends swears to have something new, to enable your readers to recommend and share content directly with their friends in a one-to-one way through e-mail, IM, social networks, or even their blog.

The widget is also very customizable, and here’s what the developers say about it:

You can customize Tell-a-Friend in any way you like. Change color, size, included features, channels and outbound messaging. Imagine your users sharing professional looking, formatted messages that carry your branding without being caught by spam filters.

Along with the free version, a corporate version has been released, that allows even more customization options, including branding the widget UI skin and control over the activity database.

Here’s a short video presentation of Tell-a-Friend:

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Ryan Boren, lead developer of WordPress, announced on his blog that the first beta of WordPress 2.6 is available for download.

While this is not a major release as 2.5 was, it still has some nice new features like:

• Post revisioning;
• Improved image editing dialog;
• Theme previewing;
• Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins;
• New, improved versions of TinyMCE and jQuery;
• any many more.

Want to give it a spin? Dowload WordPress 2.6 Beta 1.

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