{"id":6849,"date":"2020-08-10T01:35:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T01:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=6849"},"modified":"2020-08-10T01:37:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T01:37:01","slug":"a-new-way-to-get-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/a-new-way-to-get-started\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Way to Get Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key pages in The Family History Guide is getting a makeover\u2014it&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/get-started.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Get Started<\/a> page in the Intro menu. The previous look featured tiles and options to click for items of interest; the new look is question-driven. In fact, the page begins with a question: &#8220;How Do I &#8230;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From there, you&#8217;ll see a list of starred question categories. Click any of them to open the category, and a list of question links appears. You can click any question to go to the place in The Family History Guide that gives you help and guidance on the question.<\/p>\n<p>You can now find the Get Started page using the new button added to the Home page:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6858\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/new-gs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"754\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/new-gs.png 754w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/new-gs-300x123.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>and you can still find it at the top of the Intro menu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Get Started Page<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Below are a few sample screens that show how the new Get Started page works. The first is the starting look:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6859\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/how-do-i.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"747\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/how-do-i.png 747w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/how-do-i-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you click the * Use the Family History Guide link, you&#8217;ll see this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6869\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gs-tfhg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"983\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gs-tfhg.png 983w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gs-tfhg-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gs-tfhg-768x350.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 983px) 100vw, 983px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clicking any blue link takes you inside The Family History Guide for the answers. There is also occasional unlinked text (black) that directly answers a question.<\/p>\n<p>Also notice that there are embedded videos in most categories to give you an alternate way to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoy the new Get Started page &#8211; give it a try and see how to unlock the answers to your questions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key pages in The Family History Guide is getting a makeover\u2014it&#8217;s the Get Started page in the Intro menu. The previous look featured tiles and options to click for items of interest; the new look is question-driven. In fact, the page begins with a question: &#8220;How Do I &#8230;?&#8221; From there, you&#8217;ll see a list of starred&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74,11],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-6849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning","category-navigation","category-trackers","tag-get-started"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6849"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6872,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849\/revisions\/6872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}