The Complete Guide to Embeds: Part One

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4 October 2018
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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 today’s post, we will explain how your publications on Calaméo can be embedded in your website, blog or displayed in a Library widget.

We’ll start off with the basics: what is an embed? Simply put, an embedded publication will be displayed in a webpage outside of Calaméo. In this example from DARRAN Furniture‘s site, their catalog appears ready to read in our viewer:

You can embed any digital publication that you’ve created with Calaméo. Even private publications can be included in your website, as long as they have not been set to be visible only to your account.

Getting Started

In order to embed your publication, you’ll have to work with a bit of code. You can insert your publication into your blog, a website built with HTML or in a dedicated tab on your Facebook page.

Finding the code is easy. In the Publications tab of your account, mouse over the title you want to embed, click the arrow and select “Embed” from the drop-down menu. You can choose from HTML, WordPress or Joomla for your embed code, depending on the needs of your site.

💡TIP: Be sure you’ve installed the appropriate Calaméo plug-in before using WordPress or Joomla embed codes.

Hit the “Copy” button and you’re ready to go!

Virtual Library

The only thing better than embedding one of your digital publications on your business’s website is embedding a whole series for your audience to discover. We’ve covered the brand benefits of creating a Calaméo Library Widget before, and here’s a great example from Hachette:

Our tutorial video recaps how to customize your Library Widget and get the embed code. The best part? New publications are added to your Library Widget display on your website automatically, so you never have to update the code in order to update your readers.

In the next part of our Complete Guide to Embeds, we’ll be reviewing the options to ensure your publication looks exactly how you want it to on your website.

Have questions about how to use Calaméo’s professional digital publishing features? Take a look at our Help Center or write to us at contact@calameo.com, anytime.

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How to update your existing Calaméo publications: the video tutorial

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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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