Keep a finder-window layout?

hi.
I've made a set of icons to be downloaded from my website. I designed the finderwindow with the right size, a background image and the icons lined up the way I want.
How can I make sure that the window layout stays the same when the downloaded folder is opened on another computer?
I tried making a simple arcive. that didn't work.
I've tried to make a .dmg-file to mount on the desktop, but I couln't get it to work either.
(The firefox installer is a perfect example of what I want to do)
I'm using X.3.9 but I want it to work on as many OSX-versions as possible.
pm 2x2.0 G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi!
Yes, it is possible to rename the background image file with a . at the start. You can either use the Terminal to do it (but unfortunately I've forgotten how to do this!) or you can download an application like "Onyx" which can 'show invisible files' for you. Once you can see all of the invisible files everywhere, then you can create them too, by renaming your image file with a dot at the start. I think that should work.
I'm not sure how to stop the disk image opening in column-view, though. Perhaps you could contact Panic (the people at the Iconfactory) or whoever wrote the tutorial, and ask them?

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