The best way for me was the "hang it till it's dry", and "grocery bag it till it's cured" method. It worked good for my one-plant crop.
I chose it from ideas I gleaned from reading the stickies, and then asking specific questions that occurred to me as I went along, since every circumstance is different. But... it ain't rocket science. Whatever you do, barring a complete lack of common sense, will yield smokable weed.