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How do I send photos and images?
How do I send videos?
Can I send rich text formatting?
Can I send attached files?
How do I make a blog post?


How do I send photos and images?

It is as easy as attaching photos as files in your email. When you send attachments, these files are then hosted on MessageDance servers. With Gmail, you can also simply copy and paste in rich content including photos and images from webpages. These remain links to the website you copied them from. 

You need to be in the rich text mode of Gmail to copy in rich content. It is very easy to switch back and forth from rich to text -- see the links "Plain Text" and "Rich Formatting" to toggle back and forth.

Rich Formatting:
Gmail Rich

Plain Text (with photos attached as files):
Gmail Text

How do I send videos?

To embed videos into your email message, copy and paste the "embed" code from YouTube (or other service that has embed code available). If you have a video as a file, you can just attach it to your email and share it that way.

Embedding from YouTube:
YouTube Embed

This should be done in "Plain Text" email format mode.
Gmail Embed
Remember, you can also send videos directly from YouTube.com.


Can I send rich text formatting?

Yes. You can copy and paste in rich text and images from webpages. You can also just type in text and format it with Gmail formatting. It will be rendered in MessageDance with the formatting intact.
Gmail Rich


Can I send attached files?

Yes. You can send any type of file you want to share. If Gmail can attach it, we can share it for you.



How do I make a blog post?

Gmail is a great email client for making rich content blog posts. You can send photos, images, files, and text with formatting and we will pass this through to your blog platform for rendering within your blog template. Your posts can be drafts that you publish later from your blog platform or they can be published immediately when you send the email.

In the simplest terms, you can create a new blog entry by emailing your post to "blog @ messagedance.com" (or blogs@). You can create a blog entry by any means you can send a message in MessageDance which includes from your email client, iPhone, Facebook message center, YouTube Share, and the MessageDance DanceFloor. You can attach photos (any file type) and place photos/images/videos in-line. We provide you a tag ("danceimage") for you to indicate where in your blog post you want the images to be placed as well as tags ("dancetags") for WordPress tagging / Blogger labeling. WordPress categories can be automatically applied from your Social Profile setup.

Blog Email
Check out the Help Section for setting up blogging with MessageDance for the complete set up instructions.