Views is an essential module for Drupal sites that allows building custom lists and displays of content. It provides powerful tools for filtering, sorting, and displaying content in different layouts. Views is so important that it is being incorporated directly into the core of Drupal 8, which is planned for release in August 2013. The document then discusses how Views can be used to create a photo gallery by defining a content type for images, building a view to display thumbnail images in different styles, and using lightbox effects to view full images in a popup or slideshow.

1. Views Primer
By
Shakeel Tariq

2. When it comes to making a Drupal site
really work, no module is more essential
than Views.
In fact, Views is so critical to a Drupal
site's success that it is being
incorporated into Drupal 8
(to be released around August 2013).

3. - About me
- Views background
- Part of Core in Drupal 8
- Installing Views module
- CCK & Views
- powerful combination

4. Creating a gallery
- Defining CCK type for gallery_item
- Creating View for gallery page
- Showing thumbs – image styles

5. - Filter on CCK Type
- View Display settings - list, grid etc.
- Paging, Ajax etc.
- Lightbox with Views
- Popup, Slideshow etc.

6. Views Zindabad!
Pakistan Paindabad!