On your way to branding a public-facing SharePoint 2010 site, you may at some point find yourself eye-to-eye with its bare, unfeeling, and unskinnable default login page. If you should find yourself facing such a task, do not panic. Rather, reach slowly for Visual Studio 2010 and follow along at home–we’re going to build a Forms Login Web Part that can handle the same authenticatory task in much more design-friendly surroundings.