[ Thanks to Sanjiv
Lavangare for this link. ]
“A web project is a collection of assets, settings, and
deployment targets that make up a website or a part of a website.
Web projects are stored in web project folders, which are regular
folders with a bunch of web project metadata. The number of web
project folders you use to represent a site, or whether multiple
sites are contained within a single web project folder is
completely up to you. There is no “right way” that works for
everybody. Permissions are one factor. The ability to set
permissions stops at the website. Therefore, if you have multiple
groups that maintain a site that are concerned with the ability of
one to change the other’s files, your only remedy is to split the
site across web project folders. Web form and workflow sharing is
another thing to think about. As you’ll soon learn, workflows and
web forms are defined globally, and then selectively chosen and
configured by each site. Once made available to a web project, they
are available to the entire web project. For example, you can’t
restrict the use of a web form to only a subset of the users of a
particular site. SomeCo has chosen the approach of using one web
project folder to manage the entire SomeCo.com
website.”