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An achingly simple theme without all the usual cruft. Specifically created for use with Newton Personal Data Sharing.
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# Tersus

An achingly simple theme without all the usual cruft.

Specifically created for use with the [Newton Personal Data Sharing](http://npds.free.fr/) web server.

## About

Tersus is an exercise in publishing template minimalism, based on the orginal [Tersus for Wordpress](http://github.com/splorp/tersus/) theme.

Why create yet another theme? As clean and stripped down as some themes are, we wanted to prune things a bit further.

Tersus was originally named Simplicity — a term that described exactly what the project was all about. However, that was prior to the discovery of a [WordPress](http://wordpress.org/) theme already using that very name. After a brief discussion, several latin terms were bandied about as replacements. Tersus (which means ‘clean, neat, or cleansed’) seemed to fit the bill rather nicely … and here we are.

Keep track of Tersus development on [Twitter](http://twitter.com/tersustheme).

## Features

+ HTML5 structure and compliance
+ CSS that has been reset and built from the ground up
+ Non-semantic, presentational markup has been dispatched
+ Responsive, adaptive layout for small screens
+ Clean, valid, and awesome

## Credits

The Tersus project is brought to you by [Chris Harrison](http://cdharrison.com/), [Grant Hutchinson](http://splorp.me/), [Dan Rubin](http://danielrubin.org/), and [Andy van der Raadt](http://nicemodernist.com/).

Lovely chaps, all of them.

The groundwork for Tersus was based on the [Starkers](http://starkerstheme.com/) theme created by the affable [Elliot Jay Stocks](http://elliotjaystocks.com/).

We’d also like to give some props to the fine individuals and handy resources which have made the development of Tersus much more enjoyable. On the currently guest list are [Grettir Asmundarson](http://tinypineapple.com/), [Beau Calvez](http://twitter.com/avengio), [David Kendal](http://davidkendal.net/), [BBEdit](http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/), [CSS Lint](http://csslint.net/), [GitHub for Mac](http://mac.github.com/), and Google’s [Rich Snippets Testing Tool](http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets).

Cheers.

## Licensing

The Tersus theme is absolutely free and conveniently licensed under GPL. You may use it for personal or commercial projects, as you see fit. Please refer to the [license.txt](https://github.com/splorp/tersus-tumblr/blob/master/license.txt) file included with the source for more information.

Portions of the stylesheets are based on the [YUI CSS Reset](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset/) and [YUI CSS Base](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/base/) tools provided as part of the [Yahoo! User Interface Library](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/). All of the [YUI Library](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/) components are provided free of charge under a liberal [BSD license](http://yuilibrary.com/license/). Copyright © 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.

## Version History

### 0.1.0 — The “Stripped” Release

+ Initial tinkering inspired by the WordPress and Tumblr versions