Displaying a list on another site (in the same site collection)

A pretty common request is the ability to display content from one site on another site.  Using WSS 3.0, this is easy to do with SharePoint Designer.

Open SharePoint Site in SharePoint Designer and open the page in Edit mode with Designer........

Inside SharePoint Designer, in the design view of the page, click where you want the list to go, and then select "Insert Data View" from the Data View menu:

In the Data Source Library Task Pane, select "Connect to another library...", since we want to display a list that is not in the site where we are currently loggedin Click Connect to another library option from the bottom of Data Source Library Task Pane.

Click Add, then choose a display name and type in the URL of the site where the list is:

Click OK in both dialogs, and then expand the new Library until you reach the list you want to display on the page. Now right click on the list & Select Show Data. Data Source Details Task Pane shows the columns from the selected list. Insert the items by selecting Multiple Item View from the insert menu:

You can change the layout of the dataview webpart Properties.This is almost similar how we modify view of other SharePoint WebParts.