Printer’s Yellow Pages…
I would take the word “Printer’s” off and just make the title “Yellow Pages”. Or make it the plural possessive at least
For many of the categories there are many listings. I would rather tend to see some way of listing them by letter of the alphabet versus 12 items per page and the number of pages. I realize there is a search option but there are nice accidents that happen when you can see more than just the one item.
I think the current mechanism is biased against those who fall farther down the alphabet and it often makes it hard to find someone in the middle when you have to bounce around to find the right page and then where on that page.
I also was searching around and just happened to look at “papermaking”. I noticed that one of the listings was for Dieu Donné Papermill, but the main heading is cut off at the point where the accent mark happens. Was this a mistake in typing or does the accent mark cause some kind of problem?
Good spotting on Dieu Donné! You’re absolutely right: there was a glitch in our data transfer that truncated names with special characters. I tried to fix all of them, but I’m sure I missed a few. Dieu Donné is fixed now.
Interesting comments on the Yellow Pages. To me, the singular “Printer’s” means Yellow Pages for the printer, akin to “Cook’s Thesaurus”: a thesaurus for the cook.
Encouraging “accidents” is exactly what we’d like to do by providing multiple ways to access the listings, and your alphabetical idea fits the bill. For clarification, you’re suggesting a way to view listings in all categories that start with a particular letter, right? In addition, are you also suggesting a way to jump to a particular letter *within* a particular category?
Both ideas, anyway, strike me as good ones. Currently, you can alphabetically sort all listings or just one category, but as you point out, it’s hard to get to a specific letter without a lot of guesswork. This is another one of those improvements that will take a little while to implement, but now it’s on my list. Thanks.
I’m just putting this comment in to see what happens to the display.