List View web parts (LVWP) are used to show list data on SharePoint site pages. These can be customized using the browser or through SharePoint Designer. SharePoint Designer customizations to List View Web Parts are far more powerful than doing it through the browser. This video shows how you can thoroughly customize a LVWP to implement a customized view, searching capability and connecting one LVWP to another one on a different page.

Views of Lists that come out of the box are limited in nature. This video shows how the Data View web part in SharePoint Designer can be used to customize List View pages.