Organising content using Taxonomy and Views I'm just starting out with Drupal and I'm interested in how to display my content and organise it in the site.

I can see that creating basic pages I can use the Menu module to add them to the hierarchy of the menu, but is this the only way to organise content?

I'm trying to learn the Views module, which is complicated! But it seems more logical to me to create a custom taxonomy and then use the Views module to display a subsection of that taxonomy.

Is this possible?
Yes it is possible. You should learn Panels too. Panels works very nice with Taxonomy and Views. Try lullabot video tutorial about views, very good.