The Complete Guide to Embeds: Part Three

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14 March 2019
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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 three of this series, we will explain how to track the statistics of your embedded publications and tips for mobile responsiveness.

Measuring Performance

Once your publications are available on your site, looking exactly as intended, they’re ready for visitors to read, click and explore. It’s also time to start measuring the performance of your embedded publications.

Understanding the sources of your audience is easy with Calaméo’s advanced statistics. All users have access to Source data in the Statistics tab of their accounts, which shows the percentage of your publications’ views that take place on Calaméo, in embeds and from a Library Widget.

Our PREMIUM and PLATINUM plans allow you to break down Source data across a range of other stats. For example, you may wish to see what percentage of readers are clicking links in your embedded publications or whether embedded publications are read for longer.

Mobile Responsiveness

Your Calaméo account statistics will also help you to understand how readers prefer to view your embedded publications: on their desktops, smartphones or tablets. If you notice a high percentage of viewers using mobile devices, you should consider ensuring that your embed is fully responsive.

While our viewer is always responsive on mobile, it’s important that your site is set up for a responsive embed using the Calaméo embed code. Each website is different and has its own specific needs, but here are the basics:

  • Define the width attribute in the iFrame tag of your publication’s embed code as 100%
  • Check that the container for your Calaméo embed code is correctly configured for responsive display

It may also be a good idea to test the display of your publication’s links, videos and other interactive elements on mobile so that they are comfortably sized for readers to enjoy on smaller screens.

That brings us to the end of our Complete Guide to Embeds series! You should now have all the information you need to make the most out of your embedded publications.

Missed the previous entries? No problem: catch up with parts One and Two to learn embed basics and how to customize your embeds. Or download our Complete Guide to Embeds for the fully illustrated tutorial.

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.

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You’ll be able to select your logo in the Branding tab, while you’ll find backgrounds and themes in the Design tab.

There are lots of reasons to customize your digital publications on Calaméo: to optimize UX, to build your brand and share with style. Now, it’s easier than ever to adapt the viewer your business’s needs for even better digital publishing.

We’ll be sharing more tips, guides and tutorials to help you make the most out of these new tools all summer long. Check back soon to see what else is new on the Calaméo blog!

For more information about customizing the viewer, browse our Help Center. Interested in giving our new Elements feature a spin? Request your free, two-week PLATINUM Demo today!

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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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Try Calaméo PLATINUM for free for 14 days and test all our advanced features for your digital publications right now!