WordPress for a tutorial site?

http://robynhuffaker.com/sculptblend/

This is a tutorial site that I’ve been working on for a year or so. I’ve gotten to the point where I want to expand on it with other tutorials and a blog, but I kinda want to keep all of it looking the same so I decided to try using WordPress, because I heard people have used it for both blogging and as a CMS.

I’ve been dinking around with it for about a week, but I keep on running into issues. I tried writing the tutorials as posts to begin with, but it doesn’t make any sense for the tutorials to be listed by date. Especially not the starter tutorials that need to be read from first to last. It also doesn’t make sense to have all the intermediate and advanced tutorials clumped together on a single page.

So then I tried writing the tutorials as pages instead. I got a theme that works relatively well for it, but then I find that I can’t categorize the tutorials. I can make a hierarchy of pages, but… while I can see a use for making a main Tutorials page, I can’t see the sense in making a separate page for ‘Starter Tutorials’. What would I put there besides just… links to each tutorial? That seems redundant.

Am I looking at this the wrong way? Is there a better route to organize this? Or am I trying to use WordPress for something it just ain’t designed to do?