Browse our new Complete Guide to Embeds Tutorial!

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16 April 2020
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A great way to show off your digital publications is by making them a part of your website. Whether your online home is a small blog or a sprawling site, it’s easy to include documents published with Calaméo. Thanks to our advanced conversion technology and sophisticated HTML5 viewer, embedding publications can be as simple as hitting copy then paste.

However, you can always go beyond the basics with Calaméo. To help you make the most out of embedding your publications, we’ve collected all of our best tips into one handy Embeds Tutorial!

In this tutorial, you’ll find detailed information about four important aspects of successfully embedding your Calaméo publications:

  • What an embed is and when to use them
  • How to customize the look
  • Where to find viewership statistics
  • Best practices for embeds on mobile

Plus, plenty of examples and illustrations show you exactly how to get the results you want for your own publications.

The full Embeds Tutorial is available for you to browse, print or download below. We hope it helps inspire you to try incorporating your publications onto your website! And stay tuned for more great tutorials coming to Calaméo this year.

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Leaflet: add interactive maps to your Calaméo publications

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Capturing the audience’s attention and stimulating engagement are imperatives for any successful marketing strategy. Calaméo’s Leaflet integration enables you to do both, offeringan interactive experience that will captivate your readers. Discover how this innovative tool can maximize the impact of your digital publications.

Create interactive maps in just a few clicks

Guide your readers wherever you want

Guide your readers to your stores, events or any other relevant location with disconcerting simplicity. With Leaflet, your potential customers can easily navigate to the destinations they want, increasing their interest in your offers.

Map making made easy

One of Leaflet’s greatest strengths is its ease of use. Unlike other complex mapping solutions, Leaflet offers an intuitive API with well-documented functions and options. This simplifies the process of creating your interactive maps, allowing your team to concentrate on creating quality content rather than technical aspects.

Add popups and markers

Popups and markers are a powerful way of enriching your readers’ experience. Imagine being able to display clickable information about specific locations, such as stores or tourist sites, directly on your integrated maps. With Leaflet, this feature becomes accessible, allowing you to deliver relevant details to your audience with just a click.

💡 Add Leaflet to your Calaméo account now.

Personalize your map

Your brand has a unique aesthetic, and your publications should reflect this identity. With Leaflet, you can customize the style of maps, markers and polylines to match your company’s aesthetic. Choose from a range of colors, icons and patterns to create a consistent visual experience that reinforces your brand recognition.

Stimulate interaction and engagement

With Leaflet, you can encourage your readers to explore, zoom in and personalize their experience with the maps you integrate into your Calaméo publications. This interactivity strengthens the bond between your brand and your audience, fostering deeper, longer-lasting engagement.

Maximize the impact of your digital publications

Increase the visibility of your digital publications

Integrating Leaflet into your Calaméo publications can also help increase your company’s online visibility. By offering interactive maps with relevant information, you make your content more attractive to search engines, which can improve your ranking and web presence. What’s more, making your geographic information easily accessible to your audience contributes to a better user experience, reinforcing your brand’s reputation.

Improve the user experience

Leaflet integration goes beyond mere aesthetics. By offering your readers a personalized, interactive experience, you improve their overall user experience. This can translate into higher visitor retention, increased time spent on the website and a greater propensity to interact with your content. Ultimately, a better user experience leads to greater loyalty and increased conversions.

Generate leads

One of the main reasons to use Leaflet’s integration with Calaméo is its ability to generate leads. By enabling your readers to interact with interactive maps, not only improving the user experience but also stimulating interaction and engagement, and increasing the visibility of your content, you’re guaranteed to attract a wider audience and boost your conversion rates.

Conclusion

🔎 In summary, Calaméo’s Leaflet integration offers several advantages for your brand:

  • It enhances audience engagement by offering an immersive experience.
  • It promotes lead generation through interactive features.
  • Reinforces your brand’s visual identity through extensive personalization.
  • It simplifies the process of creating interactive content, saving time and resources.

In conclusion, Leaflet integration opens up new possibilities for energizing your content and strengthening the impact of your brand online. By integrating interactive maps, encouraging interaction with your readers and personalizing the style of your publications, you can create a unique and memorable experience for your audience. Take advantage of this feature to maximize the impact of your publications and successfully achieve your marketing objectives.

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The Complete Guide to Embeds: Part Two

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20 December 2018

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.