Web Site Idea

 Throughout the course we have been working on creating our own simple web pages that perform basic functions. This week we have been asked to think of an interactive web page of our own. Provided  that we knew how to create more involved pages, what would we come up with? I've read several of the posts on the discussion board from class and have really liked some of the ideas that have been presented.

 First off, my own page that I'd create would involve sporting events and the specific visiting teams that come to play the home team and link it to a ticket site. A lot of times as adults, work, family, and other responsibilities get in the way of leisure. This includes one of my favorite things to do when relaxing, watching sports. As a result, I can't keep track of when other teams that I'd enjoy going to see play come to Boston. This page would allow for alerts through email to be sent when a visiting team that you enjoy is playing in your area. It would then link directly to a ticket website to purchase the tickets. The alerts would be sent out through email or text message on a frequency schedule that allows you as the user can adjust to your liking. For instance perhaps you want to know 3 weeks in advance when a team is coming into Boston. You get the initial alert and then you select how often you want this alert to come to you. Maybe you set it so that starting on a certain date it reminds you every other day or every 3rd day, until the actual event itself. This would avoid turning on the TV the day of and realizing one of your favorite players is coming into town to play and you realize that it's too late to try and get tickets and set up babysitting if need be.

 As far as ideas from other students, someone brought up the idea of creating a page where AAA could be alerted as to roadside assistance issues. Often times AAA is criticized for their response times. Time of response varies from 25 minutes to an hour and a half based on call volume and location of the person in distress. This leaves the caller wondering how much time they actually have to sit on the side of the road for a response. With the suggested page, AAA would alert them of their expected arrival times and keep them updated as to where they stand in the process. This would be great to get a few updates along the way, giving you an email or text message at certain points during the response, for instance "dispatched", "enroute", and "arrived". With the estimated time to actually reach you constantly being updated. I think a lot of people would be much happier with AAA if they got into doing something like this. We are a society on the go constantly now, and I think where people get frustrated is we are no longer told an accurate range of time for the expected service to arrive, everything nowadays is given too wide of a range for anyone to know how accurate the given times really are.