Large scale web site development

Looking for resources and overall guidance

[npmnpm]

Webmasters,
hi I'm a webmaster with asp,php,javascript experience. I've been working on small/medium sites before and mostly by my self. I'm facing a big web site infrastructure to create and manage now, and I'm working with graphic designers. And another programmer, I have some issues, the graphic designers use programs like golive to create pages, and they almost do everything in graphics but I prefer it to be in text for obvious reasons. The website has to be in more than one language, I want to use php templates to sepate code from html, but the designers don't like working by parts. Can someone indicateme what good books or web links are there that describes building a large web infrastructure and working with different kinds of people the concerns being, standards to use, software etc...
I'll be very thankfull for some replies, I will write more specific questions and discussion topics soon,
thankx

[tedster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld.

For a really good overview I've been training a few people by using the book "Web Project Management: Delivering Successful Commercial Web Sites" by Ashley Friedlein. O'Reilly's just published second edition of "Information Architecture" is another invalulabe gem for getting the big picture.

And I wish you the best in your efforts. You will have many conversations with your team getting them to do things in a way that may not be their habit or preference, but that will create an optimum final product.

[lorax]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

I have some issues...

I don't have a resource to offer you but I will suggest you be direct with those working with you on the project and tell them what the format you want their deliverables in. Be open to hearing options and arguments but in the end you are the one who is responsible for knitting the project together so be clear about who does what and what the deliverables will look like. Just my HO.

[npmnpm]

Thanks for replies, I'll check the book contents,

if anyone else has any opinion about large projects, distributed web apps, web farms, cross web server sessions, caching, etc.
send me the links or replies!