2019 was a fun year for Samtec.com. We're in a great place right now where we get to maintain current content and features while we're building a lot of new stuff as well. The website is becoming more mature, but still developing rapidly. If you missed it, here is a look back at the top features we released in 2019. 2020 should be equally as fun for everyone. We rounded out the year with a few significant website updates that have been active concepts for a while. Take a look at the … [Read more...]

2019 was another solid year for Samtec.com. We continued to release new content, features, and software upgrades to improve the digital experience for our web users. To kick off 2020, let's look back at some of the top features released in 2019. For a complete list of all web articles, check out the Web Updates category Login System Upgrade In the Summer of 2019, we launched the upgraded login system on Samtec.com. This upgrade replaced a nearly 10-year-old system that was in need of … [Read more...]

In November, we wrapped up our technical debt cleanup, upgraded several of our back-end APIs, and rolled out several small user-experience updates throughout Samtec.com. These updates will pave the way for some exciting new applications and e-e-commerce features in 2020. Here are the major November 2019 web updates for Samtec.com. Several New SI Evaluation Kits Pages We've been working hard developing several new evaluation and development kits to speed up help development across a … [Read more...]

You can now filter by various performance protocols in our Solutionator parametric search tool. These filters include Optical, Ethernet, Storage, and I/O. Try it out here: https://www.samtec.com/solutionator Just the select “Additional Filters” checkbox and then find the “Protocol Compatibility” heading, then choose your protocol. You’ll then see all matching mated sets in the results grid. This feature allows users to get a great head start on finding which mated sets will … [Read more...]

In October, we shifted our focus to working on a few small and medium-sized projects that had been on the back-burner, and also chipped away at some technical debt that had been piling up, which is nerd speak for "picking up our toys." This type of work isn't always glamorous, but it is necessary to keep a website up-to-date from a technical standpoint, and functioning as efficiently as possible for its users (that's you!). Here are the October 2019 web updates for Samtec.com Filter by … [Read more...]

One of the major reasons people love Samtec is because of our lighting fast lead times and product availability. While competitor lead-times are measured in multiple weeks or months, ours are often measured in days. Since the early 2000s, website users have always been able to go to our Pricing and Delivery page and run a lookup for a part, but we've now made this information even easier to find and have spread it around in more places throughout the website. We wrote over the summer … [Read more...]

In September, we put a bow on the login project until Phase 2 begins later this year, continued to focus on some back-end upgrades to Samtec.com, released a few UX updates, knocked out a few smaller projects that have been on the back burner, and added a few new pieces of content. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for September 2019. Design Upgrade for Connectors, Cable, RF, and Optics Pages The top level of Samtec.com past the homepage features our Connectors, Cables, Optics, … [Read more...]

In August, we focused on continued updates to our new login system, released a few new content pages, and shifted gears to cleaning up some back-end technical debt that has built up over the last few months. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for August 2019. Continued Updates to Login System We began to launch our new login system in late July / early August, which we wrote about here. Check out all of the new features by visiting that post. In the remainder of August, we … [Read more...]