This month we updated the user experience of our on-site search, completed the final major upgrades to our product pages (for now), released a couple of new content pages, and continued with our performance updates across the static areas of the website. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for May 2022. Several Search UX Upgrades If you need a connector and you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, where on the Internet do you go first? You go to some sort of search engine, … [Read more...]

If you need a connector and you don't know exactly what you're looking for, where on the Internet do you go first? You go to some sort of search engine, whether it be Google, Octopart, Digikey, or an on-site search like the one on Samtec.com. We've been working on several upgrades to our search experience in the last year. The first was to create an on-site part number search by partnering with Octopart. After that, we released a few incremental updates to improve its performance and mobile … [Read more...]

We spent most of April finishing up a couple of large applications that were built on legacy code. Those are now updated and live on the website. We also rolled out a couple of content page upgrades, and some back-end speed optimizations to various areas of the website. New Material Declaration Application We launched a new upgraded version of our Material Declaration application, which allows users to download a digital part composition analysis for any eligible part number. We upgraded … [Read more...]

Trade shows are happening once again, and not the mini trade shows we saw in 2021. Shows such as DesignCon, NAB, and more will be happening with tens of thousands of people who are eager to learn about new and exciting products and industry trends. This means we'll be rolling out several updates to the website to promote new and key products around the time those shows are about to happen. New content was a lot of our focus in March 2022. We rolled out several new content pages to the … [Read more...]

If you're not familiar with our Project List tool, now is a great time to take a look at it, especially with this new feature we just added. The Project List tool is similar to the Amazon Wish List tool, which allows you to create custom-named lists of products that you frequently need access to on Samtec.com. You can either use this to store lists of parts for a particular project or just use it to keep a list of your "favorite" products on the site for easy re-ordering. We recently released … [Read more...]

As consumers, we have all become used to certain things when it comes to shopping online. While B2B websites do serve a different purpose, the fact is that we are all consumers. We are all used to certain features when we're trying to find the best product we can to fit our needs. Recently we made a few upgrades to our Shopping Cart on Samtec.com to continue building out the eCommerce features on the website and to make sure our users have certain features they are used to when shopping … [Read more...]

We continued a nice start to 2022 with several content releases on the website, as well as adding a few new eCommerce features on our Product pages. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for February 2022. Solution Blocks on Homepage Samtec Solution Blocks support a variety of different interconnect needs across a wide array of industries, regardless of application, performance requirements, or environment. These Solution Blocks can now be accessed directly from the homepage of … [Read more...]

As the Samtec website continues to evolve, we've been quietly adding several new eCommerce features in various areas of the website. With a recent release, we've added two new useful features to our Product Tech Specs pages to the Series and the Part-Level version of the page. Easily See Your Recently Viewed Series If you're logged into Samtec.com, you'll now be able to see your 10 most recently viewed series in a new block on the series page titled "Recently Viewed". You'll see an … [Read more...]