nScale.net's built-in form-based content editing approach is fine for many applications, but if you have a lot of text to create, or you wish to convert existing content, or if you are using a specialized content type such as a blog, it may be more convenient to use other approaches to enter content into your Drupal-based site.
Preparing your content offline suggests some ways to use familiar software on your computer to create or edit content before submitting it to Drupal.
Depending on what's available on your site, you might even be able to enter new articles without ever logging on to the site.
nScale.net includes functionality for "blogging"--creating "blogs" or web-based journals with the Blog-API. This functionality allow you to input and edit content using one of a number of desktop "blog" software packages. These allow you to simply type in content, hit a "post" button, and have your content automatically loaded onto your blog.
In fact, blogging software can be used for more than blogs--it may allow you to post content easily and quickly to almost any part of this website. Some examples of software you can use are:
Examples of applications that work with Drupal from the desktop include the following:
- Ecto - Windows/Mac
- MarsEdit - Mac
- MS Word 2007 - Windows (note 2007, not earlier versions)
- Windows Live Writer - Windows
In addition to desktop blogging tools, other services like Flickr's "post to blog", Firefox plugin Scribefire and Google Docs should work with nScale.net.
