An article I worked on has recently been published on MSDN. The article, Configuring and Deploying Anonymous Publishing Sites for SharePoint Server 2007 , covers things you should consider both in the early and late stages of a Publishing site project.
Here’s the article summary on MSDN:
Explore and learn how to address security and performance issues of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 publishing sites before launching them as Internet-facing publishing sites.