oto.my car classifieds gets new Retina-ready look

oto.my car classifieds gets new Retina-ready look

We’ve just flipped the switch on the new oto.my car classifieds, which apart from featuring a new layout as well as new functionality, is now Malaysia’s first Retina-Ready automobile classifieds.

Buyers and sellers at oto.my can now enjoy a re-worked user interface that is more intuitive, user friendly with easy search and browsing features. The browsing experience at oto.my is enhanced further with subtle yet important updates to aid car buyers and sellers in the following areas:

New layout ready for Retina Display

Developed ready for the next generation of high resolution display devices, oto.my is now “Retina-Ready” to enhance the experience of the growing number of Apple device users such as the Macbook Pro with Retina Display and The New iPad.

This simply means that the site will take advantage of the very large resolutions available on Apple’s Retina-Ready devices to deliver a crisp and sharp user interface.

Images are now so sharp that you can even read a car’s number plate through the thumbnails on the search result pages.

New Membership Account Types

A key feature is now added to allow users to register memberships according to the capacity they are signing-up in. Membership is now categorised by Individual, Sales Agent and Company type accounts.

Sales Agent and Company accounts will further enjoy a dedicated page in the form of http://www.oto.my/name-of-choice. Company accounts will also have the option to specify a list of contact persons to be displayed in their listings.

Improved Calculator Functionality

A key attraction among site visitors, our loan calculator is now enhanced with a new feature that quickly displays a selection of vehicles that correspond to the car value entered in the loan calculator. This allows users to easily view cars available that fits within their budget range.

The insurance and road tax calculators are also now improved further to provide more accurate results.

New Listing Categories

oto.my now features new “Seller Selection Tabs” that categorises sellers by type – individuals, sales agents and companies. This mode is very useful for potential buyers to quickly narrow down their search by their preferred type of sellers.

A new Classic Car category is now added under “Car Category” listing to meet the needs of classic car enthusiasts whom are either looking to buy or sell a unique classic or vintage automobile.

Oto.my was created to provide the right tools and visibility to help bring automobile buyers and sellers together by providing a comprehensive virtual showroom. It was the first automobile listing site in Malaysia to feature intelligent targeted listing aggregation to reach out to more than 1,000,000 car buyers on paultan.org.

This means a car buyer that is reading about a car such as the Volkswagen Golf on Malaysia’s number 1 car news and review website paultan.org site will also see all Volkswagen Golf on sale on oto.my.

Launched in May 2012, oto.my now has over 13,000 cars for sale and reaches 125,000 unique visitors a month in addition to the 1,000,000 unique visitors a month on paultan.org. A special mobile interface at http://m.oto.my/ designed to suit smartphone screens was launched in August 2012. In the month of October 2012, mobile surfers consisted of approximately 30% of oto.my’s visitor profile.

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Paul Tan

After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

Comments

  • napster on Nov 05, 2012 at 8:26 pm

    Congratulations Paul! Well done and its looking great!

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  • Xefron on Nov 05, 2012 at 9:44 pm

    put IntelliSense on the search bar :P

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  • seriously, i like this new looking, looking good

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  • Whoa, i tried searching “Honda Accord” and ZERO results? This is another problem with the sreach engine

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    • Paul Tan on Nov 05, 2012 at 10:51 pm

      I get 307 results – http://www.oto.my/cars-for-sale/?keyword=honda%20accord

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  • sudonano on Nov 06, 2012 at 12:19 am

    I like the new design. Clean and crisp!

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  • Using my iPad 3 (retina), photo is slightly too large to view in full. Inconvenient having to scroll a bit.

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  • In search result, NEXT or PAGE 2 button is not working.

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  • In listing:

    600px × 450px (scaled to 200px × 140px)

    I think is a waste of bandwidth. If you are showing just 200x140px image in listing, don’t use 600x450px image and scaled down. It makes the pictures look bad and also taking longer time to load.

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  • Nik Irfan on Nov 06, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    Whenever you select a specific car and model in the search form, then going to the 2nd page (if the search result contains multiple pages) of the search result will reset the car make and model field. Is this a bug?

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    • Benjamin on Nov 06, 2012 at 5:01 pm

      Thank you for the feedback. This has been fixed. Please give it another try.

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  • pakli on Nov 06, 2012 at 10:17 pm

    oh I like twitter bootstrap!

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