Grace's 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.

• 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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Sources of Information

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