Rent.ie Review

minttea

Hi all.. we launched www.rent.ie today and it would be great if we could get some feedback.

If anyone comes across anything strange let me know.

Cheers

EKRIUQ

Good domain name, I pressume that this is just another daft renting site with out the peoperties for sale.

All logos, photos, graphics and textual content are copyright Rent.ie 2008.

I took the pictures for at least 3 of those houses, I don't remember giving you permission to use them and the texual content was also mine so please explain how you claim texual content to be yours!. I don't care that you use it just wondering how you claim copyright.

yeraulone

Nice looking site. It's easy to use and informative. Well done.

Goodshape

Is it a Daft.ie affiliate site? (going by what Namesco said). I didn't know Daft did that.

I like the design and interface a lot. Easy on the eyes and easy to use.

Didn't encounter any errors or problems doing a few quick property searches.

Thumbs up.

heggie

really really nice site, well done!

tommycahir

Goodshape wrote: »

Is it a Daft.ie affiliate site? (going by what Namesco said). I didn't know Daft did that.

I like the design and interface a lot. Easy on the eyes and easy to use.

Didn't encounter any errors or problems doing a few quick property searches.

Thumbs up.

Have to echo above comments nice design and layout to it quick simple and easy to use..


Yeah I definitely think it is affiliated to Daft or at least scraping the content from daft having a look at the source shows some links to images on the daft site.

http://images3.daft.ie/rental/640000/640496/18_Bestfield1(600x450).jpeg

whereas elsewhere on the site i found

<img src='http://media.daft.ie/Dolmen-Gardens, blah blah blah >

Doh! just read the about us section and indeed it is an affiliate of Daft! :S

decob

yeah it seems to be a daft site....

domain: rent.ie
descr: Daft Media Limited
descr: Body Corporate (Ltd,PLC,Company)
descr: Discretionary Name
admin-c: AHN528-IEDR
tech-c: AGO658-IEDR
renewal: 22-June-2010
status: Active
nserver: ns0.dnsmadeeasy.com
nserver: ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com
nserver: ns2.dnsmadeeasy.com
nserver: ns3.dnsmadeeasy.com
nserver: ns4.dnsmadeeasy.com
source: IEDR

person: Ciaran Maher
nic-hdl: AHN528-IEDR
source: IEDR

person: Ciaran Maher
nic-hdl: AGO658-IEDR
source: IEDR

minttea

Thanks for all the feedback so far..

To answer your question yep rent.ie is a Daft website.

There is more info on the launch today over on Daft

feylya

Some of your links aren't working

http://www.rent.ie/image-browser/houses-to-let/643783/2

GoneShootin

Namesco wrote: »

Good domain name, I pressume that this is just another daft renting site with out the peoperties for sale.



I took the pictures for at least 3 of those houses, I don't remember giving you permission to use them and the texual content was also mine so please explain how you claim texual content to be yours!. I don't care that you use it just wondering how you claim copyright.

I'd like to know more on this one too...

Evil Phil

Great site, love the layout and its easy to get around.

I did notice the jobs.ie adverts have little white trangles in the courners. I'd assume that they're supposed to be transparent. Other than that great stuff.

minttea

Cheers everyone, thanks for all the feedback..

Namesco wrote: »

I took the pictures for at least 3 of those houses, I don't remember giving you permission to use them...

Namesco, when you enter your content up onto Daft you grant us permission to republish that data.
With regard to the wording on the bottom of rent.ie, yep you're right we will tighten the text so that its similar to Daft.

feylya wrote: »

Some of your links aren't working

Thanks feyla, will have a fix in place shortly

Evil Phil wrote: »

I did notice the jobs.ie adverts have little white trangles in the courners.

Hope to get that one fixed as well..

BTW it's very interesting to see how quickly Google crawled and indexed the site last night...

http://www.google.ie/search?q=salthill+rent

http://www.google.ie/search?q=rent+belturbet

http://www.google.ie/search?q=rent+killaloe

Eoin

Very nice, really love the look and feel of it.

kc66

Nice site, easy to use.
I noticed when looking at images of a house, it started 1 of 7, but when I went through the pictures it changed to " 1 of 75 of 7", "1 of 76 of 7", etc. Viewed a few more properties without this happening. Very minor though

cgarvey

Haven't browsed it much, but I have to say, it's well done (both visually and from a HCI point of view). Good job!

jhegarty

minttea wrote: »

Namesco, when you enter your content up onto Daft you grant us permission to republish that data.

That does not give you ownership of the copywrite

The Mighty Ken

I love it! Clean and simple design albeit aesthetically superb, at a cursory glance the mark-up is great. Just super. I'd love to see more of this kind of thing coming out of Ireland.

RedCardinal

Might look very nice, but works like a dog.

Try searching for a property by location - you cant. No search (that I could find), just a glorified filtering system.

I tried looking at rental properties in South Co. Dublin using filter. It just kept showing me properties in Dublin 3???

Good design, fairly good navigation, but some of the functionality falls flat. Lack of site search is a major flaw IMO.

Oh, and compared to what you had there previously this is great. Although I miss the laughs I used have when I'd check out the previous JS-driven website LOL.

minttea

RedCardinal wrote: »

I tried looking at rental properties in South Co. Dublin using filter. It just kept showing me properties in Dublin 3???

Good design, fairly good navigation, but some of the functionality falls flat. Lack of site search is a major flaw IMO.

RedCardinal, Thanks for spotting that one..

Seemed to be an issue with the general area searches.
It looked like it was initially performing the correct search but the refine bar was then showing the wrong area.
Any subsequent refines would then send you off to the wrong area search.

We have put a fix in place for that now and it's live up on the site.