Over the past month, our team's main focus has been on the new homepage redesign, which we put live in advance of the formal release we're planning for the 26th May 2026. In this release there are some additional changes to the homepage, including a performance improvement which should make the page load a lot faster for logged in users.
It's worth recapping the homepage changes, which I didn't get a chance to blog about at the time. Please feel free to discuss the changes in the thread here; We have made changes to the element14 Community homepage!
New Homepage
The new 'hero' widget welcomes new potential members to the site
Beneath that you'll see your profile summary (logged in) or site info panels (guest);
Then there are the Featured Content panels, which look great & shine a spotlight on some of the great content we have on the site!
The Events and RoadTests widgets look so much better than what we had before! Plus they not only give you upcoming events, but recent recordings too.
Question of the Month gets a revamp. It's a lot more clear, plus displays buttons to guest users so they know what to do next to participate.
And finally we have the lists of recent content, where we've done away with the old tabbed layout and now present all content types in the same list. It's less clicks to find what's new on element14 Community, and works a lot better on mobile.
Other Changes in our 2026-3 Release
We've created a suite of 44 calculators for electronics, which we'll be adding to their own dedicated area in the coming weeks.
Our content team has an improved tagging tool at their disposal to help tidy up or apply new tags in bulk.
The News sitemap we introduced in the 2026-2 release now includes RoadTests and Design Challenges; we're hoping these will get picked up by Google Discover for greater visibility across the web.
Fixes to the RoadTest 'view entry' and enrol buttons.
Layout improvements to our new homepage widgets for mobile devices.
There's plenty of behind the scenes work too, but this wraps up the features you'd be interested in for this release.
Hope you enjoy the changes.
element14 Community Development Team