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.
Difference between revisions of "Test: House Style"
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| − | * Body text should be short paragraphs and commence with a year or date whenever possible. | + | * 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. |
| + | * Try and give the reference to each paragraph of information using the <ref> button in the edit bar above. It will appear like this <ref>This is a reference</ref>. | ||
| − | '''Category Assignment and | + | * '''Bold''' and ''Italic text'' [[links to other Grace's Guide pages]] can be achieved by using the above edit buttons where necessary. |
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| + | * [http://www.example.com Hyperlinks] can also be added using the button on the function bar above. | ||
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| + | * To add a thumbnail image, aligned right, use [[Image:image code.jpg|thumb| Year. Image Comment.]]. see the edit tab on the [[Test image position]] page for more options. | ||
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* Please assign as many suitable categories as possible referring to the 'All Categories list' as necessary. | * Please assign as many suitable categories as possible referring to the 'All Categories list' as necessary. | ||
Revision as of 10:58, 1 October 2014
Page names / Titles
- Never use the '&' (ampersand) in a page name - it will never be found again!
- 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.
- Try and give the reference to each paragraph of information using the Cite error: Closing
</ref>missing for<ref>tag.
- Bold and Italic text links to other Grace's Guide pages can be achieved by using the above edit buttons where necessary.
- Hyperlinks can also be added using the button on the function bar above.
- To add a thumbnail image, aligned right, use . see the edit tab on the Test image position page for more options.File:Image code.jpgYear. Image Comment.
Category Assignment and Defaultsort
- Please assign as many suitable categories as possible referring to the 'All Categories list' as necessary.
- Particularly for Pages made as a name as the title, please add in the default sort script the Surname first followed by an initial, so that it will appear in the correct alphabetical section 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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