By creating custom views using the List View Web Part, you’re able to display lots of data in lots of different ways.  Up until now though, we’ve been putting those views on the homepage of our site (default.aspx).  In some scenarios that is just fine but there is another option within SharePoint.

From your SharePoint site browse to the Create page:

Select Web Part Page from the list:

This brings you to the New Web Part Page form.  This form allows you to create a new .aspx page that will contain Web Part Zones for you to customize.  The form allows you to specify a Layout Template for the Web Part Page.  These Layout Templates (not to be confused with Layout Pages in MOSS!) specify how the Web Part Zones are placed on the Web Part Page.

The last part of the form asks you where you want to save your Web Part Page.  When creating Web Part Pages through the SharePoint UI you must save the file in a Document Library on the site.  If you do not have an existing Document Library, the UI does allow you to create one from the New Web Part Page form.

If you anticipate creating multiple pages I recommend creating a new Document Library (from the Create page, not from the link on the New Web Part Page form because it has some values hard-coded).  Back on the Create page, select Document Library from the list:

The New Document Library form allows you to set a default Document Template of type Web Part page:

Once the library has been created, when you select New Document:

You are taken to a simplified version of the New Web Part Page form:

Using this method allows you to quickly create new Web Part Pages to host your Web Parts: