This one had me for a while until I accidently came across it looking for something else. My big issue was that the SharePoint pages were all laid out quite nicely, and pretty. Title and description on the left and the controls on the right in that neat blue. I recreated this layout manually: table, row, cell, span for the title, span for the description, next cell, class for the blue background, span for the label, user control, next row... and so on.

There are lovely user controls available: InputFormSection and InputFormControl. Using these user controls, these neat SharePoint formatted pages are a whiz to make! Instead of me reinventing the wheel, check out http://karinebosch.wordpress.com/sharepoint-controls/inputformsectionascx-control/ for a more details. Well worth it!