Drupal 7 - theme default node view I would like to know the recommended way to re-theme the default node view for a certain content type.

E.g. http://dev.mysite/en/node/6547, now shows a 'list' of content fields. We would like to change this to a more clean layout.

Would using a node.tpl.php in the theme folder and then create a node--[TYPE].tpl.php for the specific node type solve this problem in the correct way?

Regards,
Wouter
Using .tpl.php files would indeed give you more control over the HTML Drupal will create in the end.
Also using a module like Display Suite (DS - drupal.org/project/ds) will give you more control over the fields in a certain display so that some settings about that field on that display are stored in database instead of in code.