Create your SharePoint 2010 themes easy

Branding the site is something each organization is looking for and  even if I had my own personal site which I use to share stuff I would love it brand it ... throw in some colors add icons and images. 

So If you wanna quick brand your SharePoint website you can do so from the Inbuilt themes from:

Using the Interface:

1. Open SP site
2. Go to site actions > site settings 
3. under look and feel choose site theme
4. click select a color to change the color of a specific item.
5. choose theme from the list
6. click preview to view the site changes before publishing 
7. click apply

well wasn't that easy but if you want to make your own themes rather then the well defined ones before jumping into CSS  consider this option. 

Creating Themes with PowerPoint 2010

1. Open PowerPoint 
2. Create a new document but if you have an existing document that your organization uses then skip step 3.
3. Change the theme, you can do this also from the design tab of powerpoint choose the theme that defines your style, choose fonts and hyperlinks so on. 
4. Choose the color pallette for the site by clicking the Colors. 
5. Save the PowerPoint Document as MS powerpoint theme which is *.thmx
6. Now go back to your sharepoint site> upload this file under Galleries and Themes. 
7.  Keep / as destination. 
8. Then choose this new theme for your site from the about way. 

tadaaaa .. you have your custom theme for Sharepoint and did we even touch Designer or CSS ...no sir :)

Sharepoint 2010 Metadata

SharePoint Metadata is advancing with the versions and if you know how to work with the metadata you can make it easier for the users to search, locate, organise and use stuff within your organization.

The tags and the site columns makes it easier to get what you need within the search query, Below is a video from Sean Bordner who explains sites columns, Content Types, Term Store and Term set with real world examples we really found it useful and think if you spend 21 minutes here you can understand the sharepoint metadata in a better way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1ZiDWycyfs

Practice question answers for exam 70-332 | Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

If you are looking forward to clear 70-332 paper and looking for practice questions answers like me, here i have combined a set of links which can be useful.

The best place where i could see the questions and answers is mcseananswers.com

I am listing down the links to go step by step these are 12 part series which contains 70 questions and answers which might give you an idea of stuff you can expect in 70-332 paper
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I will add more links here when I make progress.

More information can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-in/exam-70-332.aspx