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Introducing Minerva – A Creative Portfolio Theme

Recently, I teamed up with very talented designer and personal friend Baz Deas to form a small and fun ThemeForest team. We came up with a name, DesignThirst, and have released our first premium HTML template on ThemeForest. Minerva, the name of the theme, is a premium and very fresh corporate/portfolio theme. Just check out some the features!

Introducing "Minerva"

Minerva is a fresh and clean site template that works great as a portfolio, personal, blog, or corporate site. Minerva comes packed with features and is ready to go out of the box. It even comes with a working AJAX & PHP contact form w/ spam protection!

Screenshots

Home Page

Footer

Contact Page

Blog Comments

Theme Features

• Working AJAX & PHP Contact form.
• Nice jQuery effects in the Footer and ‘Share This’ section.
• Easy to use jQuery Slider in the header.
• Custom Font Embedding with Cufon, falls back on awesome font stacks and still looks great.
• 5 Different page types included.
• Supported in all major browsers, including IE6!
• Valid XHTML
• Custom and in depth online and offline documentation and support.
• Clean, elegant, and semantic code aids in good SEO .
• Minimal use of images and creative use of sprites to save loading times.
• Special attention paid to elements and typography, see demo page.

Demo, Documentation, & Support

http://designthirst.net/themes/minerva/ – Live Demo

http://designthirst.net/docs/minerva/ – Online Documentation

http://twitter.com/DesignThirst – DesignThirst on Twitter

Get Minerva now!

You can get Minerva right now, available exclusively through ThemeForest.

Feedback, Updates, and Feature Requests

If you didn't know, once you buy a theme on ThemeForest, you can download any updates made to that item for free at anytime! That said, we're about to release Minerva version 1.1 version 1.1 has been released!, which comes with some small enhancements, so no matter when you buy it, you'll forever have access to upgrades for free!

I'd love to hear any feedback or feature requests, let me know what you think!

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