How can I present a library as a custom view?

I have a Sharepoint library that is currently rendering as the usual folder and document items table list view.

I would like to use present the same information as a grid of folder and document icons with some nice jQuery hover animations to show tooltips on the item the icon represents.

I suppose what I am really trying to find out is how to add a new library view that allows me to specify the markup rendered per item. I could write a new webpart to query the list and use an ASP:Repeater but I don't want to have to specify a webpart property each page to tell the webpart where it should ope开发者_开发问答n the list from.

You can use List View Web Part with custom XSLT.