The Views module provides listings of data on your site: users, comments, nodes, and more. Any listing of data provided by the Views module is called a view, which we’ll always refer to in all lowercase to distinguish it from the Views module, which is capitalized. Figure 3-24 shows examples of some of the listings that can be built with the Views module.

Creating a basic view entails selecting the fields you would like displayed (node title, author name, image, etc.), how you would like that list to be filtered (only display “story” node types that are published), how you would like the listing to be sorted (newest stories on top), and what you would like the list to look like when it’s displayed (a block showing a bulleted list of headlines).