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After a lot of work, testing and development, we've launched our new website. We want to make it as easy as possible to find the antibody you're looking for, so your feedback is very valuable. Let me know what you think by adding a comment to this post.

More ways to find our antibodies and reagents

As our catalog's now grown to over 45,000 products, we've decided to do a little re-organization. By selecting the new options in our navigation bar, you can now browse our catalog by product type, or by research area.

There's still the option of using our search box, and that's had some improvements too. We've made it bigger so it's easier to use and see what you're typing. We've also moved it to the top right corner - this actually came out of our usability sessions, where scientists told us that they expected to find it there. Hopefully you've been using it already, but if you didn't spot it, well now you know.

New and improved homepage

We've listened to a lot of great feedback on our homepage, and I think our changes will make it more useful and relevant to scientists. There's a lot more focus on the things that you're looking for, with the central links giving you a great overview of all our product types and all our research areas. And we know that search is very important to everyone who comes on our site... that's why we've made it the biggest thing on the page!

And those boxes at the bottom? We'll use them to let you know about the areas of our site that you may not have visited before, keeping you up-to-date with our latest conferences, protocols, and resources.

But if you still haven't had a look yet, why don't you check out the new homepage?

Next up!

We're going to continue making improvements to the different sections of our site, but you can be sure going to be that one thing will stay the same – we're keeping Molly the sheep. Just in case you were worried..

To top it all off, we launched a new section of products, Microbiology. It's been a busy week at Abcam!