One reason I undertook this site for my project is because I have a keen interest in the transport industry as my father owns a coach company and he runs services to and from Belfast for students travelling to university or for normal commuters going to or coming home from Belfast. I have noticed in the past few years the decline in numbers on some services from both our company and others and I believe that it is because of the lack of advertising of these services. This is why I feel it is important to design a website that will both promote services in different areas and inform the users of the services available.
The website will give lists of both private and public sector operators who have daily commuting services to and from Belfast. I will also have some sort of interface that will allow the user to select their county and an area close to them that would be beneficial to their journey. There would also be an area for the users to add their own comments giving reviews on their experience alerting others of positive and negative aspects.
My idea came from the fact that when I had football training during the week I was going home two and three nights a week and was just using Translink each time at £7.30 a trip was getting quite expensive so I looked online to see if there was anything out there but there wasn't for here anyway! (Even though I knew a couple of other companies that did do service runs to my area). I used to have to phone up all of he time to find out when the next service would be going back to Belfast and the person on the phone would tell one thing but I would find out that it was earlier and miss it, this made me think that if they had a website and the information was on it the they would have to keep to the times scheduled. I therefore thought that there was more that I could research about how other companies in different countries promote their services. I broadened the spectrum and saw that there were services like this further afield in England and Wales. My task is to create a website that will be equal to both sectors as there isn't enough advertising towards the private sector and this is what I aim to do for the North of Ireland to show that there isn't just a government body operating and that other private operators do this as well and sometimes at a better rate.
The following are some ideas I came up with when thinking of what content I wanted to add to my website. I know it's a bit early but I feel that it would be better if I had some ideas to focus on. I might not use all of these ideas and I might add some extras nearer the time of my project.
What I would need to take into consideration
- User friendly
- Forms of Transport
- Price Comparison
- Advertising
- Regular Updates
- Twitter Feed
- Blog Feed?
- Type of content
- Text
- Tables
- Images
- Client Area
- Forum Area
The above will give me a great insight to what direction and actions that I will be taking towards creating the website.
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