{"id":1785,"date":"2018-02-05T00:06:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T00:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2019-01-16T19:27:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T19:27:11","slug":"home-page-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/home-page-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Page Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To keep things consistent and easy to follow, we don&#8217;t re-arrange items on the Home Page of The Family History Guide very often. In the last few days, we&#8217;ve added a few touches that we feel will enhance the user experience a bit, while not dramatically changing it. In this case, we have updated the &#8220;banner&#8221; area &#8211; the section with &#8220;The Family History Guide&#8221; text. The main intent is to provide a bit more guidance for users who are new to The Family History Guide website. Here&#8217;s the new banner area:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/home-slice.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/home-slice.png 786w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/home-slice-300x84.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/home-slice-768x214.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a brief rundown of the new items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Menu Help<\/em> &#8211; Just above the banner area is a small open \/ close link titled &#8220;Menu Help&#8221;. Click it to get a brief description of the menus at the top of each page in The Family History Guide. This is a gentle reminder that you can find whatever you need on the website by using the drop-down menus; you don&#8217;t have to use the tiles or links on the Home Page.<\/li>\n<li><em>Search<\/em> &#8211; Also just above the banner area is the Search link; it has been moved into the header area on each page of the site so you can find it without scrolling. For more details, see our blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/the-search-is-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The &#8220;Search&#8221; is On<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Font size and color<\/em> &#8211; We&#8217;ve reduced the text size in the banner in order to fit two tiles on the right, and we&#8217;ve made the green color consistent on the page.<\/li>\n<li><em>Mission recap<\/em> &#8211; We&#8217;ve added a shortened version of our mission statement at the bottom of the banner: &#8220;Family history made easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>Get Started<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; see the description below.<\/li>\n<li><em>Quick Tour<\/em> &#8211; This is a link to our Quick Tour video, but it will change when more videos are added (see &#8220;Sneak Peek&#8221; below).<\/li>\n<li>Google Translate bar &#8211; This has been moved higher up the page so it&#8217;s visible without having to scroll down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Get Started Page<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you click the Get Started tile (or the Quick Start link on the Home Page), you&#8217;ll go to a redesigned page that asks what you want to do. This was created with new users in mind; experienced users can simply use the drop-down menus or tiles on the Home Page to find resources.<\/p>\n<p>The page now looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1791\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/get-started1.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"833\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/get-started1.jpg.png 833w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/get-started1.jpg-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/get-started1.jpg-768x275.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can click any of the tiles, logos, or links to get off to a good start with The Family History Guide. The More Options section below it remains as it was before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sneak Peek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are planning on adding videos about The Family History Guide and other cool features. To accommodate these on the Home Page, the Quick Tour tile will be transformed into a scrollable slide show, where you can see and click on what&#8217;s new and what&#8217;s being featured in The Family History Guide for any given week.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it &#8211; check out the new Home Page and Get Started page when you get the chance, and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tablet-fhg-1024x664.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tablet-fhg-1024x664.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tablet-fhg-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tablet-fhg-768x498.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tablet-fhg.png 1253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\u201cwv-ignore\u201d>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.websitevoice.com\/gdg8sme9Co8djc4uHOHRfA\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script>\n  window.wvData=window.wvData||{};function wvtag(a,b){wvData[a]=b;}\n  wvtag('id', 'gdg8sme9Co8djc4uHOHRfA');\n  wvtag('text-selector', '.entry-inner');\n  wvtag('widget-style', {\n    className: 'wv-circle-small',\n    contrast: 'wv-contrast-dark'\n  });\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To keep things consistent and easy to follow, we don&#8217;t re-arrange items on the Home Page of The Family History Guide very often. 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