Yahoo has developed the de facto standard for building fast front-ends for websites. The bad news: you have to follow 34 rules to get there. The good news: I'll take a subset of those rules, explain them, and show how you can implement those rules in an automated fashion to minimize impact on developers and designers for your high-traffic website.

I'll show you how to achieve the following in one shot:

• Combining resources for fewer HTTP requests.

• Using timestamped filenames for far-future Expires headers.

• Optimising subdomains.

• Minify CSS, JavaScript, and images.