Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 115342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,237 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Test: House Style

From Graces Guide

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!
  • 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 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.
  • Image should be compressed and set to a max width of 720 px. This speeds up the page download times.

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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Sources of Information


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