Indianomics!

As a product that puts you on the web easily, Sharepoint provides customization to the nth level. Here, I am just mentioning one way I found out to do so.

Custom Templates: This thought came to my mind after I saw the Christmas Template done by Brightstarr. The themes can be defined as “the face of the website or a web application that adopts to certain values”.

Themes help us to select a look and feel for a particular web page by changing its colors and images used for designing. Technically, changing theme is just adapting to a new Style Sheet and imagery.

To create a new theme, copy an existing theme from the themes directory into your development machine. Incase you don’t know where you can find it; look at the following directory on your Sharepoint Server.

C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions12TEMPLATETHEMES

Use either Adobe Dreamweaver or other CSS editors and do the necessary changes on the style sheet you want to see on the webpage.

You would find two or three CSS files apart from all the images or may be one CSS files. All you need to do is find the correct Class name used in the Source Code and match it on the CSS. Do the changes required, test it. You are done.

There is a INI file which stores information about the creation and version number which is helpful. You can choose to edit the same in the following manner. Make sure you do not change anything else than Version, Title.

[info]
title=NewStyleSheetOfCompany
codepage=65001
version=1.00
format=1.00
readonly=true
refcount=0

If you want to do testing, take a view source of the Sharepoint site and save it to your development machine. You can either add a <base href=”” /> to this page or change all the URLs to point at your development machine where you have stored the CSS and Images.

Once you are done with doing the changes on CSS and Imagery, its time to put it on its way.

Edit the C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12TEMPLATELAYOUTS1033SPTHEMES.XML file and add your theme in the following manner.

<Templates>
<TemplateID>TheDirectoryName</TemplateID>
<DisplayName>Theme Name</DisplayName>
<Description> Description of the theme</Description>
<Thumbnail>images/themethumbnail.jpg</Thumbnail>
<Preview>images/themepreview.jpg</Preview>
</Templates>

Access the Images folder here and put your Thumbnail and Preview images here.
> C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12TEMPLATEIMAGES

Reset IIS and Bingo! You would be able to select the new theme from Site Settings of your Sharepoint Site.

When I watched Ghajini for the first time in Tamil, I was amazed by the story and the performance of the cast. The beautiful lady she is, Asin made her mark well in the movie. While it was Surya Shivkumar who steals the show. The story is also laid perfectly. There is cretainly a difference from the original move it was adaped from, the Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan.

What surprises me the reception Aamir Khan’s version. Well it is his might behind the success of Ghajini. I am wondering how the film is received in Tamil Nadu where it is people have already had first hand experience of watching it earlier.

A few people had forwarded me SMSes which said that the movie’s suspense is out and that Aamir is the killer of his Asin in the movie. I knew that it is wrong and it is not the actual ending, since I had already watched it twice. I called up those and instructed them that not to spread the rumours and it may not be correct.Some also had decided that they do not wish to see the movie because they do not want to find out Aamir is the killer. They simply can’t see Aamir as the Killer.

This is acceptable, thinking that people don’t have seen it, or the tamil version. I wonder, is it a try by Aamir’s not-so-good-thinkers lobby spreading a wrong message and try to salvage Ghajini’s success.

The hype that had created by Ghajini Effect has proved very usefull. According to report published in the DNA Newspaper in Mumbai, Ghajini has attracted News coverage for different reasons amounting to 32 hours of Prime Time news and Lunch news advertisment slots for Free. As far as I remember, he is the only celebrity to have publicly promoted his movie, by setting up a hair cutting saloon for the event. I saw him shaving hairs on the news. Even Surya would not have thought off.

The Hair Cut, Abs, the Ghajini look, Samsung Ads all added up to create the Hype around the movie and it seems that the movie has really lived up to the hype.

Very good Aamir. He has proved that he is the real King Khan. He has only one or two movies a year. And they are so phenomenal, people love them. Exclusive and very low television pressence has added up to his value as an actor.