Because I am familiar with all the bits and pieces lying around on my websites I have not appreciated how confusing some parts may be to visitors so I need to do something about this. First of all, I have two areas called 'Catalogue' or 'Catalogues' which need to be distinguished rather better. If I need to consult a Corgi Catalogue, one of the little books or leaflets issued in the past, then I know that I can click on the link word Catalogue in the text of the home page of corgi.toys, which is where I usually start. (If you start elsewhere there are explanations further down this page.)
I can also click the image that has the text Catalogue beneath it.
These don't take you to the old Corgi Catalogues just yet - another click or two is required. This is a bit more obvious with an illustration of the 1967-8 Corgi Catalogue and that word Catalogues below
Click on that image and finally you're getting closer, on a page titled 'Catalogues' no less.
This page is not very pretty but does have links to various years for which I have original Corgi Catalogues and have made images available to view. So clicking on 1972, for example, takes you to a page usefully entitled 1972 and with the 1972 Corgi Catalogue pages displayed.
Unfortunately, the pages are not all that big and you might want to look a little more closely at some. The individual pages don't have links but if you click on the title, 1972 in this case, you will be whisked off to yet another website where I did upload decent size images.
So, finally, you can have a good read without needing a magnifying glass.
You could also have gone straight to a particular year's Corgi Catalogue by clicking on 'Catalogues' in the menu that should appear on the page with links to various groups of Corgis and lists, which looks a bit like this.
The menu features 'Catalogues' as its second item at present.
That's probably the simplest, but less obvious, method to get to a a particular year's Corgi Catalogue.
That is all very laborious, though, and hasn't changed since 2014 when I first got the catalogues. At that time I reviewed them all in this blog. So you could also find some catalogue pictures and comments about the quite interesting content that I wrote many years ago by clicking on the word catalogue in that mass of words here, usually on the right when viewed on a monitor.
Another starting point for many people may be corgi-toys.net, an address that I obtained in 2013 when I started and a long time before corgi.toys would have even worked. I was rather more sensible in those days, it seems, and actually listed Corgi Catalogues in the menu.
Click on this and it takes you to yet another 'Catalogue' page!
The page starts by showing the 1972 Corgi Catalogue but there is a list of years to the left (on a normal monitor, not sure how it appears on a phone) and clicking on any of these will take you to the year in question.
These images are much bigger and seem to be on a totally different set of pages to either of the others mentioned above!
Going 'Home' from this last site will take you to corgi-toys.net. That is an older site but it seems reasonably OK for now and the links take you to the right places. There is no obvious way, however, to get back to corgi.toys if that's where you started. So I have a fair bit of work to do to try and tidy all this up.
Lastly, you may also find some of the old articles have links to a very ancient website I made when I started all this over ten years ago.
It does still look nice but the software I used simply couldn't handle the huge number of pages I had accumulated and it could take up to 30 minutes to make some minor change! Everything also had to be stored locally on a drive here in the office as well as online whereas now, whilst I have back-up copies of images locally, everything else is online and edited online, thanks to Google. Using Google also keeps the sites working within acceptable limits for the different devices people use nowadays to view web content. Whereas once upon a time everyone would be staring at a small, often slightly flickering screen of 640 by 480 pixels now my pages probably appear in all shapes and sizes on smartphones large and small, tablets this or that way and even tv screens.
I make no promises and certainly no New Year's Resolution to this effect but I shall certainly think about making a search for the main areas you need to access less of a Magical Mystery Tour.
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