Views

The Views contributed module is found on many Drupal sites. It is probably one of the most essential modules for Drupal and is the most actively used contributed module in the Drupal repository. Drupal requires a database for everything it does. It supports the use of a mySQL database. Being able to create customized output of database tables once required huge amounts of manual work, which would then be hard coded into pages. The majority of a website is built upon two concepts: data and presentation of this data. It is for this reason that the Views module is a vital element of many sites. The Views module is extremely flexible and powerful. It offers Drupal site developers great flexibility displaying content. It is used to create custom listings of content that are filtered and sorted using unique criteria and displayed in pages or blocks as needed. Countless lists of data can be created using Views such as: news, image galleries, user lists, and highest-rated content. You can create lists of almost any data stored in the database, from users, to comments, nodes, files, revisions, and taxonomy terms. And all this can be done without touching a bit of code. Views was used to create the Photo Gallery pages.

Panels

Your site has data that you’ve created. You have that data in blocks, pages, and views. Now it’s time to lay it out where you want it to go. The core functionality of Panels is layout. The Panels module supplies a group of standard layouts as well as giving you the flexibility to create a layout that meets whatever needs you may have. Panels was created to enable the quick design of one or more page styles that could be applied easily and allow for a consistent look, without having to manually change code on each page. This page was created using Panels.