Since Samtec began in 1976, free connector samples have been a cornerstone of our business model. That said, we're always looking for ways to continue to improve how we get samples into your hands. Recently we rolled out a simplified way to place sample requests on the website, which significantly shortens the click path that you need to take to place a sample request. Rather than navigating several pages down into the website, we've brought the ability to place a sample request to a … [Read more...]

Wow! How quickly the web evolves. Just a few years ago we were building a new version of our website from scratch using a completely new codebase. Since then, we've done hundreds of releases to stay current with web technology and user expectations, and I'm sure we will do hundreds more. As the expectations of web users in the B2B space continue to evolve rapidly, 2019 will be no different, and will pick up even more steam. But before we look too far ahead to what's in store for … [Read more...]

In November, we continued our mobile updates to the website, released a couple of new content experiences, and made placing sample requests even easier. Read more below on these and the rest of the major updates to Samtec.com for November 2018. Continued Improvements to our Mobile Experience As corporations worldwide become more mobile-friendly to their workforce, the Internet needs to evolve to match. This has been a huge trend in the B2C space for the last decade, and is now … [Read more...]

As corporations worldwide become more mobile-friendly to their workforce, the Internet needs to evolve to match. This has been a huge trend in the B2C space for the last decade, and is now quickly catching up to the B2B space. We’ve seen our mobile user base grow rapidly in the past 12 months during M-F, and have even noticed many weekend warriors who use Samtec.com at extremely high rates on mobile devices over the weekends. We expect these trends to continue. This month we rolled out … [Read more...]

The majority of Samtec.com has been translated into four additional languages, German, Hindi, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. Users can access the translated pages by navigating to Samtec.com and clicking on the "Languages" tool at the top-right of the website. This setting will be stored for the future as well, so when the user returns, their selected language will load automatically. You can see the Japanese translation of the homepage below, for example. Also included in … [Read more...]

October was a big month for Samtec.com. We released the first phase of a long project to translate Samtec.com into four additional languages, a new section in the main navigation, improved our mobile experience for our growing mobile user base, and added several new Standards pages. Read more below on these and the rest of the major updates to Samtec.com for October 2018. Translation of Samtec.com into Four Additional Languages The majority of Samtec.com has been translated into … [Read more...]

In September, we spent some time focusing on our checkout process, continued to improve our industry standards experience, and released a few new content pages. We also rolled out the first version of our new Samtec Cares website. More on these and the rest of the major updates to Samtec.com in September 2018. User Experience Updates to Checkout Process We've added a few new features to the checkout process when users are placing orders on Samtec.com. Users will now receive a … [Read more...]

One of our major areas of focus on the website in 2018 has been upgrading the way parts are ordered and sampled on Samtec.com. We wrapped up a series of several software releases for our checkout process over the summer, and are now beginning to work on making samples even easier on Samtec.com. We first released our Streamlined Sample process in our Solutionator tool in January of 2017. This allowed samples to be placed in one simple step, rather than going through five individual … [Read more...]