World Of Electronics

This week I stumbled across the Elatec Vertriebs GmbH website for the electronics distributor. The company was founded in 1988 and has branch offices in ten European countries and since 2006 they have had a joint venture partnership with KAGA Electronics, a leading Japanese independent distributor. Elatec develops RFID Readers as modules, OEM boards, PC cards and as complete devices in housing.

Well designed and simple to use, the site is navigated via links at the top and also at the left hand side of each page and there is an excellent download section containing a multitude of PDFs. I feel that the site would benefit from a design update as it does look a little dated compared to a lot of contemporary “Web 2.0” sites out there. However, this does not detract from it's useability and the site has obviously been built to be standards compliant.

The Industrial Computing section features some excellent stuff about Elatec's Embedded Computer products with very useful hyperlinks for order enquiries or to request further information. All in all the Website is certainly fit for purpose and definitely lives up to the company byline of “electronics is our world”. Check it out at www.elatecworld.com