Any resources for organizing content?

Hello Everyone,

I'm starting to create content, and I'm sort of at a loss when it comes to organizing it. I don't want the content to simply fade into oblivion like a traditional blog. I'm focusing on IT tutorials, and I would like people to be able to find relevant content quickly and easily instead of having to search or page through everything chronologically. If you have any tips or other resources, such as tutorials or a behind-the-scenes look at how a similar site was developed, I'd really appreciate it. Is this a situation where I should implement the views module? I've only looked at it briefly, so I'm not entirely up to speed on its capabilities.

I'm not looking for any in-depth responses, but if you could point me in the right direction, that would be great.

I'm also looking for recommendations on a couple of modules. I'd like to have one of those little archive calendars that are common on Word Press blogs, and I'd like one that displays a tag cloud. I assume the latter would be used in conjunction with the taxonomy module.

Any advice would be appreciated. TIA.

P.S. This seemed like the most appropriate forum for this question, but please let me know if another one would be more suitable. Thanks again.