Rightmove
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Love Rightmove, HATE the new website
I have been using the RM website on a daily basis for years and years and have always found it to be a pleasure to use. The new website is a disaster. It's so bad that I am exploring other providers to get away from the frustration of clunking around the new RM format. It's not just that it is different, it is inferior to the previous website in multiple ways. I rarely write reviews but this is so annoying that I have to feedback. Where to start? 1. As soon as I click on a property I lose the '2 bed detached' strap-line and have to go searching for that information. 2. There is no logical, intuitive layout to the page. My eye doesn't know where to look for new information. I use this site daily and I still don't know where to look. A line of tabs is so simple and so quick to use, why change it? 3. With each new area that I click on I end up with a totally new layout, further frustrating my desire to know where to look for information. 4. If I click on photos, I cannot step through the images with a single click, I have scroll. I should be able to do either. It feels cheap and crude. 5. If I now want to go from images to a map I have to go 'back' and then search for a map link somewhere and then click that. There should be a direct link. Having clicked the map link, surprisingly it doesn't take me to a new page but drops me down the same page at which point I lose the header information. I now have to click again to go to the actual map page. 6. OK, now I'm ready to look at the floor plan. I can't go straight to the floor plan from here. OK I'll go back to images first. I click on the small image at the top which takes me to... the map link?! and I have to scroll back up to the top of the page to get to the header and now search for a link to find the floor plan that I was originally looking for. As I walk through this process for the sake of the feedback I realise that once again I can't find the floor plan. Ah, I have to scroll further down the page as the floor plan link is off screen... As an aside, I also find the two images to the right of the main image on the homepage irritating in the way that they scroll as I index through but this may just be personal preference. Shall I go on? It just defies belief that this format could have been approved and released on such a major site. Just bring back the old one. Maybe do a survey of people that regularly use the site and see if there are a few tweaks to improve it? Sorry to be so negative but I am being driven away as a RM user...