I work for a university's IS department. Relatively new to DW, I'm trying to create a ZIP of .dwt, .css, etc. files for the ~250 department webmasters. They can customize parts of our new look, but there are other parts we don't want them to be able to change.

The problem is that their local master (created from the ZIP) does not contain the .css, images, and include files that are at the root of our web server, so they don't get a good view of what their pages will look like (until they publish it). I worked up another ZIP that does include all of them, and their pages look complete.

The "before" site definition:
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stylesheets/
images/
index.htm
...
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The "after" site definition:
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/stylesheets/
/images/
/pulmonary/
images/
index.htm
...
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The "before" site is just their site, a top-level folder on our web server, and only the parts they are allowed to change are included. The "after" site's root is the web server root; the ZIP includes the contents of all the top level (the parts they can't change), plus their web (here, /pulmonary) - but they only publiish (check in) the /pulmonary folder.

The "before" site's definition includes:
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HTTP address: www.uchsc.edu/pulmonary
Remote host address: pulmonary
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The "after" site's definition includes:
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HTTP address: www.uchsc.edu
Remote host address: /
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I expect many of you have been here. My questions are:
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"Which way do you do it?"
"Am I on the right track?"
"Am I missing something?"
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Thanks for any advice you can provide.