Grace's Guide
British Industrial History
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 145,064 pages of information and 230,729 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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* Check that the page doesn't already exist, but under a slightly different title by using a broad search term and checking carefully. | * Check that the page doesn't already exist, but under a slightly different title by using a broad search term and checking carefully. | ||
| − | * Never use the '&' (ampersand) in a page name - it will probably never be found again! | + | * Never use the '&' (ampersand) in a page name - it will probably never be found again! There can also be problems with any character that is not one of the 26 + 10 alphanumeric characters... |
* Always abbreviate 'Company' to 'Co' in page names | * Always abbreviate 'Company' to 'Co' in page names | ||
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* '''Bold''', ''Italic text'' and [[clickable links]] to other Grace's Guide pages can be achieved by using the edit buttons where necessary. | * '''Bold''', ''Italic text'' and [[clickable links]] to other Grace's Guide pages can be achieved by using the edit buttons where necessary. | ||
| − | * [http://www.example.com Name] can also be added for external Hyperlinks | + | * [http://www.example.com Name of link] can also be added for external Hyperlinks |
''' Adding an image | ''' Adding an image | ||
Revision as of 20:40, 24 February 2018
Page Titles
- Check that the page doesn't already exist, but under a slightly different title by using a broad search term and checking carefully.
- Never use the '&' (ampersand) in a page name - it will probably never be found again! There can also be problems with any character that is not one of the 26 + 10 alphanumeric characters...
- Always abbreviate 'Company' to 'Co' in page names
- Do not use 'Ltd' / 'plc' and similar in page titles as companies change their legal status during their life-time
Page Content
- Body text should be short paragraphs (unbulleted) and commence with a year or date whenever possible.
- Paragraphs are listed in date order ascending, so list by earliest reference first.
- Give the source reference to each item of information using the 'ref' button in the edit bar above.
- Where most of the page information comes from a single source then include that under the 'References' section in the page footer
Edit Functions
- When using the 'Edit Tab' at the top of the page, the edit function buttons will appear to aid the creation and organisation of your page.
- Bold, Italic text and clickable links to other Grace's Guide pages can be achieved by using the edit buttons where necessary.
- Name of link can also be added for external Hyperlinks
Adding an image
- The house style is to use thumbnail images, aligned to the right, in chronologically ascending order.
- See Test: Image Processing to learn how to prepare an image for upload.
- Image should be compressed and set to a max width of 720 px. This speeds up the page download times.
- To add a thumbnail image, aligned right, view the edit tab on the Test image position for script and Test: Linking Images for the general procedure and tips.
Category Assignment
- Assign as many suitable categories as possible referring to the 'All Categories list' as necessary.
- All company pages should have a category 'Town - xxxx' or 'Country - xxxx'
- All person pages should have categories for 'Biography' and 'Biography - xxxx' and 'Births - #### - ####' and 'Deaths #### - ####'
- Be free to create new categories.
'Defaultsort
- For person pages, add in the default sort script the Surname first followed by Forenames, so that it will appear in the correctly in alphabetical order within it's category listings.
- For an example, please use the edit tab to view the 'hidden' script below.
Footer
- All pages need the following code at the bottom (immediately before the 'Category' tag) (Use Edit tab to see the code)
See Also
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