We created the PixelNovel accounts to be the best storage for versioned Photoshop files. However, Photoshop files is not the only type of files that designers deal with - design projects aslo involve InDesign, Illustratior, Flash files, html, css and all type of script files such as PHP, ActionScript, Ruby and so on. And since PixelNovel is just a convinient wrapper around standard SVN server you can also all sorts of files in you PixelNovel account.

Your repository path

The most important thing that you need to know is the path to your SVN repository. The path is

http://pixelnovel.com/svn/[accountname]

So if your account name is, for example, demoaccount, your repository path will be

http://pixelnovel.com/svn/demoaccount

You will need to enter this path into the SVN client of your preference - it may be TortoiseSVN, Versions, RapidSVN, DreamWeaver (I am going to publish a dedicated posting covering the usage of PixelNovel Timeline with Dreamweaver soon), or any other SVN client.
Also you will need to provide you log-in details - i. e. the email address and the password you used when registered with PixelNovel.

Now you can perform all standard operations with your repository. You can checkout your whole repository or any part of it into a folder on your machine, or you can import the files from your machine into the repository. For example, if your account is called demoaccount, and you want to check out your whole repository into the folder C:\projects\Logo, you can use the following command line:

svn co http://pixelnovel.com/svn/demoaccount C:\projects\Logo

If you are using TortoiseSVN, your checkout window would look like:

And if you using Versions on a Mac, you will first need to add a repository bookmark - your bookmark window would look like:

Now you can use store all your files in your PixelNovel account - we will make sure that all your work is secured and backed up. Also, very soon we are going to significantly reduce prices for storage space making PixelNovel Subversion storage one of the cheapest SVN hosting on the market!