Apress has just released a book called “Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites”, written by by Antony Kennedy , Inayaili de Leon (ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-3288-9 –  400pp ).

The book covers the development processes required to smoothly set up an easy-to-maintain CSS framework across a large-volume website and to keep the code reusable and modular. It also looks at the business challenges of keeping branding consistent across a major website and sustaining performance at a premium level through traffic spikes and across all browsers. Defensive coding is considered for sites with third-party code or advertising requirements. It also covers keeping CSS accessible for all viewers, and examines some advanced dynamic CSS techniques.

What you’ll learn from this book:

• The value of process
• Making reusable, robust, and modular CSS
• How to maximize the performance of your site
• Integrating with third parties
• How to keep branding consistent
• Best practices for cross-browser and accessible CSS
• Dynamic CSS techniques

Who this book is for:

This book is for Web developers building and maintaining premium, successful, high-traffic websites using web standards. This book will also help team leaders responsible for code that will be shared over multiple projects, as well as project managers with a high churn of contract staff.