Extract from the original post “Do you have any lists in SharePoint where the forms seem to go on and on, marching down the page, seemingly ad infinitum? I’ve seen lists which have over a hundred, even over 300 columns. This is a horrible thing to do to your users for so many reasons, but one of the primary reasons is that the list forms are simply unmanageable and in many cases unfathomable.
If you do have that many columns in a list and they really do need to be there, consider building custom “sub-forms” which take a more wizard-like approach. What I mean by this is that you might have a relatively short initial, customized version of the New Form which collects all of the required information. When your user saves that form, you can use SPRedirectWithID from SPServices to go to the next form in the sequence, and so on. You could, of course, develop totally custom forms, whether by using traditional .NET development or by using jQuery, and probably jQueryUI plus other plugins, and the SPServices and the Web Services to write the data into your list(s).
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