New myhome.ie site - what tripe

grahamor

Just read on Tom Doyle's blog about the new myhome.ie site and i have to agree with him... It's worse than the last one.

It looks really unfinished and just thrown together, im suprised a well established Dublin agency made something so bad.

This is just my opinion but im sure others agree.

AARRRGH

Yeah that is bad. They use about a million different font sizes on the page too...

kjt

It sure does look very scattered on the main page. I think they tried a bit too hard to go for the "simplistic look", it just comes across as empty.

Webmonkey

Horrible - looks so cluttered - nothing lining up

Laslo

It's horrendous... unfortunately Irish clients tend not to know the difference between a well designed site and a poorly designed site. They simply look at established companies like Webfactory, check out their clients list and that's enough for them. They don't have any notion of quality. More's the pity.

grahamor

Lets hope they dont get their hands on www.myhome2let.ie , its quite a decent site (compared to myhome.ie)

Bob the Builder

even the color scheme and the million plain shades of blue just speaks for itself...

Bob the Builder

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myhome.ie%2F

Oh my, 191 errors.

Webmonkey

nevf wrote: »

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myhome.ie%2F

Oh my, 191 errors.

Oh god - this makes me angry - here I am making valid websites for half nothing and then they pay big money for someone to create that?

CuLT

Depressingly poor alright. Looks like it's missing half a stylesheet, the colour choices are poor, the font sizes are all over the place, there's no natural focal points or flow to the page and the url scheme is completely inconsistent.

egan007

Pain in the ass - my session times out during a search.
Search options are blanked when I try to search again.

Bob the Builder

Webmonkey wrote: »

Oh god - this makes me angry - here I am making valid websites for half nothing and then they pay big money for someone to create that?

The "autodetect" feature is enabled, and it detects the the website is XHTML and scans for errors based on that... However, even if you use HTML 4.0 transitional, it still throws up 80 errors.

I have little experience regarding web design, and I couldn't(and i'm sure you couldn't either) design a website that bad, or with that many errors if we tried..

Webmonkey

Lazy developers tbh

Bob the Builder

Webmonkey wrote: »

Lazy developers tbh

But what I can't understand is
a) Would the developers not be employed by MyHome.ie, and actually want to do a nice job, and increase traffic = profit.

b)If the developers were external, and just contracted do the site, they're being paid to design it, and should at least try to make a proper one, and if they're not competent, why did MyHome contract them to design it in the first place.

It's not my problem, but it does make me curious...

aidan_walsh

nevf wrote: »

But what I can't understand is
a) Would the developers not be employed by MyHome.ie, and actually want to do a nice job, and increase traffic = profit.

b)If the developers were external, and just contracted do the site, they're being paid to design it, and should at least try to make a proper one, and if they're not competent, why did MyHome contract them to design it in the first place.

It's not my problem, but it does make me curious...

Probably what Laslo said.

heggie

perhaps thats one of the problems, developers were paid to 'design' that site, it also looks like designers were paid to develop the site, maybe they got mixed up!

wheres me jumpa

Its hard to see where the main content is, I seem to be drawn to the right handside of the homepage.

AARRRGH

Sure the website only cost 50 million. A basic design is all it needs...

Webmonkey

Heard the Ads on the radio today - "Now MyHome.ie is even easier to use with our re design - see for yourself!".

Makes me want to vomit

mewso

Dead cert for a Golden Spider.

Laslo

grahamor wrote: »

Lets hope they dont get their hands on www.myhome2let.ie , its quite a decent site

You're kidding right? It's atrocious. The main navigation links redirect via JavaScript. Amateur Web design 101.

cgarvey

I think that a site that has 15-20 separate means of navigation has lost site of ther goal. While design may well be a personal thing, there are some sound base HCI principles that shouldn't be ignored, and this new site manages to ignore quite a few of them!