The *.tar should contain ALL & NOTHING BUT your source files.
All those your website needs to properly function and no others.
project-ldale.tar
For ldale, substitute your own username. This tar file should be
created in such a way that it creates a single directory of
THE SAME NAME when I un-tar it. Below is one way
to make this happen from the command line.
mkdir project-ldale
cd project-ldale
populate directory w/ your source files & NOTHING ELSE
cd ..
tar cvf project-ldale.tar project-ldale
Subject: 284 - project
If you want to "doublecheck" what you've sent me, here's one way. CC yourself on the email you send. Save the tar file into a new folder. Navigate to that folder and un-tar the file at the command line. Then check the directory contents.
The commands to do this are summarized below.
mkdir sandbox
cd sandbox
save tar attachment into sandbox folder
tar xvf project-ldale.tar
cd project-ldale
ls