#best practices

At our first SIG meeting it was suggested that our next meeting focus on Drupal development strategies, best practices, navigation, and site architecture. Hopefully some more experienced Drupal developers can share their experience with these topics.

Hope you can make it,
Eric

So, we have a large, complex Drupal 6 site, which has lots of secret sauce and magic glue making it work.

Where we can, we've contributed modules back and made them generic, but we still have 30 or so custom modules to keep it working the way we need it to. Each module (in most cases) has a specific function e.g. our hook alters for the notification system.

I am interested in creating Top 10 lists for Drupal. These lists will feature advice from the user community about working with Drupal. The lists will serve as a fun learning tool for those working with Drupal.

The lists will be divided into 3 categories: Beginner, Intermediate, Expert.

The lists will evolve over time and may eventually include more than 10 items each, but I thought it would be fun to go with the "Top 10" idea initially.

I've been having some occasional trouble where my site slows to a crawl.

Does anyone have any best practices for optimizing Drupal on lower memory configurations.