Copy the folder of your kit onto the desktop with everything in it you want to be in the final folder – blinkies, tou, blog shortcuts, etc.

Name the folder of your kit – designer name_kitname - what you want the folder to be named when it is unzipped onto the recipient's computer.

The Size is Right Game

It must be determined which files are to go in each zip to make the right size zip.

Open the kit folder and while holding the shift key down, click on each file until you have selected the number of files necessary to reach the size wanted. On my computer, I can see this in the details window on the side of the folder window. It is circled in green in the image below.

Doing this helps you determine what files to include in the first zip. Make note of which files are remaining. Here, they are the files starting with the desigername_kitname_pp2.jpg and on down to the end of the list.

You do not have to choose the files in order, they can be any of the files in this folder or any sub folders.

So now you should have on your desktop

• your kit folder with just the files in it that you want for the first zip
• the holding folder, holding the remaining kit files for later zips
• the working folder which we will use next

When the dialog box comes up, Tell WinZip to zip the folder to the Working Folder by clicking on New and browsing to the working folder. Type in the name for the first zip - designername_kitname_zipnumber.zip

Be sure to type in the extension .zip as WinZip makes these capital letters if left to itself, and many servers can not work with capital letter extensions.

You can name these zips anything you want, but numbering each one in succession seems to be logical.

Then Click the ADD button and your fist zip will be made for this kit.

After WinZip is done, close the WinZip window where WinZip is displaying all the files in the first zip - Win Zip just likes to show off and let you see what it had done

The WinZip Dance:

Open the kit folder and move the files there to the working folder. They have been zipped and need to be removed.

Move files from the holding folder - just enough to make up the next zip - to the kit folder.

Then Zip the kit folder AGAIN

You can see then, that the kit folder is the shell that all files are zipped up in. You are just shuffling files in and out of it to zip them.

Subfolders will work in this too!

Let me walk you through this again but with subfolders.

Start at the beginning with the kit folder and the working folder and the holding folder

But since the paper folder is still too large for one zip, we will need to remove some papers from the paper folder.

The paper folder must remain inside the kit folder if there are files in it to zip. So to reduce the file size of the zip, open the paper folder and move files out of it and into the holding folder. until you have the right size.

You"re playing the Size is Right Game!

Now, do the WinZip Dance again
(see above)

Only this time instead of moving files out and in of the kit folder you are moving files in and out of the paper folder until all paper files are zipped up.

When you are through with the paper files, you may remove the papers folder from the kit folder and move in the elements folder and start working with it.

It is even possible to have both the papers folder and the elements folder inside the kit folder with just a few items in each. You may even have those files like the previews and tou's outside of both folders inside the kit folder when zipping and that is the way they will end up when unzipped.

For instance, you have just one more paper to be put into a zip but you do not want a zip that is so small. So add the elements folder to the kit folder and then remove elements from that folder until the size is right - Advance Size is Right Game!

WinZip remembers which folder each file is in when zipped and when unzipping will place those files there.