XSLT List View web part is a new type of web part that lets you manipulate data in a flexible manner using SharePoint Designer 2010. A designer can easily connect to a variety of data sources to display data as needed and also setup any required conditional formatting of data. The best part about this setup is that a member of the site who is later using this data through the browser can easily interact with the views of this data or create additional views.
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The following article explains how to configure a Data View Web Part with conditional formatting to allow items in a SharePoint list to be formatted based on item-level meta data, such as the due date or priority of a Task Item. The example formats items in a task list so that overdue tasks are bold and red, tasks due in 3 days are formatted as orange, 1 week yellow and one month green.
See http://blog-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2009/05/data-view-conditional-formatting-using.html for details.
SharePoint Conditional Formatting
[...] Video for XSLT List View web parts and Conditional FormattingXSLT List View web part is a new type of web part that lets you manipulate data in a flexible manner using SharePoint Designer. A designer can easily connect to a variety of data sources to display data as needed and also setup any required conditional formatting of data. The best part about this setup is that a member of the site who is later using this data through the browser can easily interact with the views of this data or create additional views. [...]
Very good straight forward example, just what I love about these videos, they get right to the point and have excellent examples.