Workflow? What first?  What is the best sequence?

I've searched using every word combo I could think of and have not found any info on what other photographers are using for a suitable workflow while working on a photo. I'm new to Aperture so I'm playing catch-up with all the great tools. But I'm wanting to make sure I'm not processing a photo in the wrong sequence or doing things out of rythm. I've been working out of the Aperture 2 Apple Pro Training Series book which has alot of good info, but I'm worried about which should come first. I hope there is someone out there that can give me a good starting reference to a workflow.
Thanks
Russell

The order of the bricks in the Adjustments pane in Aperture is a pretty good guide on how to work with an image. For myself, I do the exposure adjustments first, and then the White Balance since IMO adjusting WB first often make me come back to the WB after adjusting exposure.
Another thing I usually do before starting to adjust an image is to crop it. As you will see, the crop brick always get before the WB brick. To crop before adjustments is IMHO a good thing since you then just have to be concerned about the stuff that is within the cropped area and not being distracted by all the things you have cropped out, especially when it comes to WB and exposure.
In the "old days" I used ACR and had a similar approach to the sliders there. After converting to psd- format I went on working with the image in Photoshop using a non destructive workflow using layers and adjustment layers. The image was saved without sharpening. On output I opened the image, saved a copy and adjusted image size before putting on sharpening. If the image should go to the web, I had an extra step after sharpening putting on a border and signature.
Aperture workflow is much more elegant and since you don't have to save a converted image, you can always come back to do additional adjustments.
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