Custom taxonomy page that lists content

Question

In Drupal 7, I'm trying to create a page that shows all terms in a specific taxonomy, along with node content that uses the taxonomoy.

What I'm hoping to do is create what's essentially a grid of views, where each term in the taxonomy displays: an image associated with the taxonomy term (the image field was added to this particular taxonomy), and then below it a list of nodes tagged with that term, ideally with each list having its own mini pager (although a complete listing or a partial listing with a "more" link would also work if a pager is not achievable).

I'd also like to do this without Panels, since I'm not using it anywhere else on the site.

Can someone point me in the right direction as to how I should approach this?

Answer 1

The quickest way I know of is by using Views.
I would create a special "content type" with a special image field, a text field to describe the meaning of the Tag, and a Term Reference field to include the applicable tag later. Then I would enter one image + text for each existing tag and assign it to the tag itself. Later with the help of views I would customize display-views like the one you have mentioned which would take just a few minutes to do.