Content Strategies | PHP-Nuke Garage

Having used PHP-Nuke for some time, I've developed some strategies for using the Content module that might help you make more effective use of it on your own site:

Come up with good categories. More than 1215 items in a category is too many because the list of items becomes too long to read. Try to come up with smaller, shorter categories. For example, instead of a Lyrics category that contains the words to every song ever written, try creating categories like Lyrics: 19701975 or Lyrics: Milli Vanilli, which are much more specific.
Create a General Information category to hold items that include information about your site, how to contact you, and so forth.
If your site uses a checkout system to sell goods, you may need Thank You and Approved pages for the checkout system to link back to. Create these pages in the Content module and then deactivate them. The checkout system can still link back to their actual URLs, but the items won't show up in the list of items your users see.
Break longer items into pages, using the  tag. Ideally, one page of content shouldn't occupy more than two screens' worth of height, or about 6080 lines of text. Anything longer starts to turn into a mass of text that's hard to read. I try to place my page breaks so that the end of each page roughly coincides with the end of the blocks in the left column of my page. That way, the site looks more consistent and professional.
Preview your pages thoroughly before activating them. I like to type my content in Microsoft FrontPage, which offers a spell-checker and easier formatting tools. I can then go into its Code tab and copy the actual HTML (everything between the <body> tag and the </body> tag) to the Clipboard, and then paste it into the Content module. That way everything is nicely formatted and spell-checked, and I didn't have to get the HTML tags right by myself.