css tutorial

Author: Antony Kennedy and Inayaili de Leon
Publisher: Apress
Pages: 401
ISBN: 978-1430232889
Aimed at: Web developers
Rating: 4
Pros: An interesting insight into CSS
Cons: Not for the beginner, nor the accomplished expert
Reviewed by: Ian Elliot

CSS for high traffic websites? Does it sound like a book a developer would really need to read.

After all what a high traffic website needs is a good server architecture coupled with caching and compression and CSS isn’t really top of the list in terms of what you might get back in performance from effort expended. However, there are other issues with CSS that are associated with high traffic websites – defined to be those with over 10,000 visitors per day. Such large web sites are likely to belong to big companies or to be managed by a team rather than a few lone developers. What this means is that, as well as having to be organized about HTML and JavaScript, you also have to organize your CSS. And CSS is generally an afterthought in the design of most website.