Comments on: Dublin Coastal Development a LOT Slicker Than Funda.ie

By: llenno

llenno — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:03:42 +0000

The site was developed by Irish company Arekibo.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:23:09 +0000

I’m sure they’re going to have some teething problems initially and hopefully they will iron out the issues mentioned by Mojo.

One usability issue that strikes me instantly is the dead end you get when you click on ‘funda desk’. The prominent background on that homepage link is bound to attract users to click. Having to use the back button to navigate out is just asking people to leave the site IMO.

Great that they’re live though – best of luck Funda!

By: Mojo

Mojo — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:19:39 +0000

Wouldn’t be a huge fan to be honest. Design-wise it’s plain at best, ugly at worst. From a mark-up point-of-view, it’s showing up a lot of stubborn validation errors that could be fixed without having any bearing on functionality. From an SEO perspective, they really need to do some work – ‘Search Sale’ as a title on the homepage, ‘Detail’ as a title on the property landing pages. Not great for Google. Why do they have a funda.ie ad on the homepage of… funda.ie? There ARE some nice features there but it’s all been done before.

By: Jimmy_smithy

Jimmy_smithy — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:04:33 +0000

Funda.ie is now live (I think it went up last week sometime. It looks pretty good, the mapping is a lot cooler than myhome at any rate.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:08:30 +0000

Hi MoJo

It’s an extremely tough niche and not having the site live for people to make the connection certainly isn’t helping.

Thanks for posting your thoughts.

Regards

Richard

By: MoJo

MoJo — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:56:50 +0000

Well it’s the 3rd and the site hasn’t gone live yet. Eeep! The impact of their viral campaign is waining by the day I reckon. I wonder will it measure up to HuntForProperty.ie from an accessibility and SEO perspective? Although it seems Daft and MyHome already have this market wrapped up.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:45:41 +0000

I have to agree with you about the value of editorial coverage Jummy_smithy, but I wonder how much of that coverage relates to Funda as opposed to Dublin Coastal Development?

The Funda.ie website will now be live October 2. I do hope they get the recognition they deserve for the great viral. I’m just not willing to bet the house on that outcome.

By: Jimmy_smithy

Jimmy_smithy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:26:56 +0000

Well, delays to any sort of new site is a regular occurance. If you take the old ad maxim that editorial coverage is worth three times the price of conventional advertising, then funda.ie is well ahead in that particular race.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:03:07 +0000

Apparently the launch was short-lived and the site is once again a placeholder page. The launch date is September 25?? Further delays are just eating into the ROI on that €30,000 viral campaign.

I have to admit I feel for Funda and do wish them the best with their launch. Thank you Funda for the wonderful viral and great case-study material.