When a designer (or a developer) adds style (CSS) files to SharePoint - care must be taken regarding where the files are placed:
Some places are are not suitable because they are not good for deployment
Other places may have permission issues - designers can't access them
Some files are part of the site definition and should not be customized
So the rules are:
Never modify out of the box SharePoint files in /Style Library/ - those files are part of the site definition, if you customize them they are hard to deploy
Start with a clean, minimal masterpage
Create and reference your own CSS files and put them under /Style Library/CSS/<client>/
You may want to further divide your CSS paths according to the areas of the site that your CSS is designed for:
E.g. /Style Library/CSS/SSW/Clients/layout.css
Designers can modify the XSL file as well!
Put them under /Style Library/XSL Style Sheets/<client>/