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Do you want to keep your digital publications up to date and offer your readers the most relevant information? Calaméo offers a simple and practical feature for updating the content of your publications: loading a new version. In this article, we present our video tutorial “How to update your existing Calaméo publications”, a step-by-step guide to updating your online documents without losing their reading history and preserving existing links and annotations.

Why update your publications on Calaméo?

Uploading a new version of your publications to Calaméo keeps your digital documents relevant, while preserving their interactive value. Whether you’re distributing a magazine, a product catalog or a brochure, it’s essential that your content is up-to-date to maximize its impact. By adding a new version, you can quickly correct information, add new features or improve presentation without having to create a new publication.

The advantages of updating your Calaméo publications

Updating your publications on Calaméo offers many advantages that improve the reading experience and optimize the management of your content:

• Save time and resources: by loading a new version, you can reuse the same URL without losing views and engagement statistics. This allows you to maintain continuity with your audience while simplifying the management of your publications.
• Continuous improvement: With this feature, you can update your content over time in response to reader feedback or new information. This approach ensures that your documents remain relevant and effective.
• Keep interactivity: If you select this option, the update of your publications retains the interactive elements you’ve added before, such as links and annotations, for a seamless user experience. In this way, readers can access new information without losing the interaction features originally integrated.

READ MORE: I need to update my publication. Can I keep the links that have already been added?

A video tutorial to guide you: How to update your existing publications on Calaméo

Calaméo’s interface makes updating your publications simple and accessible, even for users without advanced technical skills. To guide you step by step, we’ve created a video tutorial that explains how to upload a new version of your publications in just a few clicks.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this tutorial :

• Access the publication update functionality.
• Upload a new file to replace the existing version.
• Preserve publication parameters and interactive elements.

Calaméo’s intuitive interface ensures fast, easy loading, so your publications are always up to date without extra effort.

You can also read our Help Center article: How do I update an existing publication?

Conclusion

Updating your publications on Calaméo is an effective way of providing your readers with up-to-date, high-performance content. This feature allows you to correct and enrich your documents without interruption, while preserving interactive elements and performance statistics.

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For many businesses, showcasing digital publications on their own website is a great business solution. Clients can enjoy the convenient presentation and interactive features of catalogs, magazines and more all while browsing the brand’s site.

To help you take advantage of this powerful tool, we’ve created a complete guide to embedding your publications!

In part two of this series, we will explain how to customize your publication’s appearance in your website.

As you’re collecting the code for embedding your publication, you’ll see a preview of its look. You can use the default appearance or click “Customize options” to make changes. Since there are a lot of possibilities, we’ll break down the results for each category.

MODE

“Mini” and “Publication” offer very different choices for displaying your publication on your site. In “Mini” mode, readers can page through the document but must click to open the Calaméo viewer and access links, personalized elements and more included in your publication.

When “Mini” is selected, you can also define how the publication opens when clicked. “Open viewer directly” launches the publication in a new window, while “Open description page” launches the overview. “Open publication in full screen directly” launches the viewer in full screen, bypassing its Calaméo URL, once the embed is clicked.

In “Publication” mode, the viewer is inserted on your site page so that your audience can read your publication there in full.

VIEW

The View parameters let you choose a Reading mode for your embedded publication: Slide, Scroll or Book. Experiment to find the appearance that works best with the design of your site as well as any custom Skins or UX elements you’ve added to the viewer.

PAGE

Want to highlight a special page of your publication or ensure your audience sees particular content? Use this parameter to embed your publication starting at a certain page in either “Mini” or “Publication” mode.

SIZE

Although several pre-set sizes are available for your embedded publication, “Custom” allows you to define the height and width right down to the pixel. It’s important to allot enough space on your website page to accommodate the size that you select, otherwise your publication may not display correctly.

With our Platinum plan’s white labelled viewer, you can insert a full-sized publication on a dedicated page of your website and share it using your own URL. Include the “shareurl” parameter in the embed code so the share button broadcasts your URL on social media, too.

💡TIP: We love full-screen reading for great user experiences. If you’re planning to enable full-screen for an embedded publication, remember to check that the “allowfullscreen” parameter is present where you place the code.

With these examples in mind, you should now be able to choose the appearance of your embedded publications so that they look just right on your website!

In the final article of this series, learn more about statistics for embedded publications and mobile responsiveness.

Have you embedded a Calaméo publication on your blog or website? We’d love to see your best work! Tag us @calameo on Facebook and Twitter or on Instagram @calameo_publishing.