Views 1.x user documentation

Views is primarily a tool for site designers who want to customize the presentation of lists of content -- such as lists of articles, new content, and content controlled by taxonomy -- in ways that are not built into Drupal.

Views creates these lists and can present them either as pages, blocks, or both. It can give these pages menu entries, or create them as menu tabs. Views can provide output in a generic list, a table, or lists of teasers (like the front page, where each entry links to the full article).