As in MOSS, SharePoint 2010 (I’m using Beta 2) allows you to create and modify default site templates. Templates that mainly have lists and items presented on them heavily use XSL to drive their look and feel. One of such templates is a Blog template. In this example we’ll create a new SiteTemplate that is based of Blog template and I’ll show you how to make changes to the look of the webparts of the template using XSL.
Changes include: Rendering additional controls along with the rest of the view, adding JavaScript actions, rendering data based on values from column variables etc.
Despite my efforts this video turned out to be 18 min (not my “under 15 min” rule) but you’ll find it a great reference when working with simple and complex SharePoint 2010 templates.
Here is some more reference on the topic from Channel 9
