Over the last couple of years, Samtec.com has been transitioning from using database-driven content delivery to delivering a large portion of static content using a content-delivery-network. While these newly-built pages are still populated using a content-management system, we layer a static site builder on top of them and bundle a lot of the script and CSS calls together to maximize their performance and speed. These pages are also loaded directly from server memory which doesn't require … [Read more...]
Here are the June 2024 Website Updates to Samtec.com
We took some time in June to make a few user experience tweaks to the new navigation hierarchy, released an upgrade to the automotive section of the website, added new content for RF Open Pin Field Arrays, and more. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for June 2024. New Automotive Industry Page Update Samtec delivers Sudden Service® solutions for standard and customer-specific automotive designs by providing short lead times with an array of options to meet the robust quality, … [Read more...]
Meet Your (Kind of) New Family Pages on Samtec.com
In the previous post, we gave you a tour of our new Product Group page layout on Samtec.com. In this post, we'll take you through the final layer of our new product hierarchy rebuild, the family pages. What's different about this level is we actually didn't change a whole lot on the front side of things. The majority of the work was on the back end, making these pages extremely fast and easy to maintain. Let's take a look under the hood at the (kind of) new family pages on … [Read more...]
Introducing the Brand New Product Navigation for Samtec.com
If you read the most recent web update blog post, you've already been introduced to this new section of the website briefly. In this post, we'll take a little bit of a deeper dive into the new product navigation on Samtec.com. Brand New Main Products Navigation The main navigation and page hierarchy that we ran for nearly a decade on Samtec.com has been permanently replaced by our new Solution Blocks hierarchy. Previously, you saw our product navigation separated into four buckets, … [Read more...]
Here are the May 2024 Website Updates
May 2024 was a huge month in the near 30-year history of Samtec.com. We rolled out a massive main navigation and product hierarchy update, combined with a major back-end update and CSS framework update. We also continued the work with updating several of our APIs for increased performance and made some simple tweaks to our on-site search for an improved experience. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for May 2024. Brand New Main Products Navigation The main navigation and page … [Read more...]
There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch (With Samtec)
Here at Samtec we’ve been busy this spring participating at several trade shows across the globe, and hopefully we’ve seen you there. But now the slower summer season is almost here, which presents another great opportunity – Lunch With Samtec (free lunch anyone?). Lunch With Samtec Program At a Lunch With Samtec event, meet with Samtec Field Engineers (FSE) one-on-one without the crowded trade show booth. These events allow you the space and time to ask questions and hold product samples … [Read more...]
You Can Now Search Full Mated Sets Using These New Samtec Reserve® Filters
In all of our Solutionator® tools where users can design a mated set of products, we have now added a feature that allows users to require that BOTH parts be within our Samtec Reserve® program, which offers 1-day shipping on over 200,000 parts. Previous to this change, only one side of the mated set was required to be in Reserve®. You can see this filter in action in these three tools Here's an example of how to use this new feature. I'll show you using the Flex Stacking … [Read more...]
Women in Electronics: Technology Giants & Inventors
When researching women in electronics for a previous blog, I had way too much material to share. So here is a follow-on post that offers a summary of some interesting women in electronics, particularly in areas like mechanical engineering and computer science. As I’ve said before, this is not an attempt at a thorough list, so please, add comments with women whom you would like to acknowledge! Katherine Burr Blodgett, PhD Blodgett was the first woman awarded a doctorate in physics from … [Read more...]
Here are the April 2024 Samtec Website Updates
As we continue to work on a major overhaul to our navigation and back-end systems of the website, we were still able to make progress on a few key updates this month to continue improving the user experience on Samtec.com. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for April 2024. More Emphasis on Most Relevant Test Reports It might sound like a small update, but anything that makes it easier for our users to find the relevant technical data they need is important to us. On the product … [Read more...]
Famous Women in Electronics
Researching famous women in electronics led me in many directions and specialties, like mechanical engineering and computer science, and would easily turn this rather ambitious blog post into a book! For this piece, I focus on three women who excelled in the field of electrical engineering. In a later post, I will give a nod to some of the other incredible women in related fields that I discovered along the way. I by no means promise an exhaustive list, so please, add comments with women whom … [Read more...]
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