diff --git a/js/main.js b/js/main.js
index ed008f3..ee221dd 100644
--- a/js/main.js
+++ b/js/main.js
@@ -1,19 +1,11 @@
 var base = "http://phonebk.develop.digitalmediauconn.org/phonebook.php";
 
-function getAllPeople() {
+function ajaxCall(uri, callback) {
 	var ajaxcall = new XMLHttpRequest();
 
-	ajaxcall.onreadystatechange = function () {
-
-		if (ajaxcall.readyState == 4 && ajaxcall.status == 200) {
-
-			document.querySelector(targetSelector).innerHTML = ajaxcall.responseText;
-
-
-		}
-
-	}
+	ajaxcall.onreadystatechange = callback; 
 
 	ajaxcall.open("GET", base + "?do=getAllPeople", true);
 	ajaxcall.send();
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
+
diff --git a/messages/json.html b/messages/json.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba51d0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/messages/json.html
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+<!doctype html>
+<html class="no-js" lang="">
+    <head>
+        <meta charset="utf-8">
+        <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge">
+        <title></title>
+        <meta name="description" content="">
+        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
+
+        <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="apple-touch-icon.png">
+        <!-- Place favicon.ico in the root directory -->
+
+        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
+        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
+        <script src="js/vendor/modernizr-2.8.3.min.js"></script>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <!--[if lt IE 8]>
+            <p class="browserupgrade">You are using an <strong>outdated</strong> browser. Please <a href="http://browsehappy.com/">upgrade your browser</a> to improve your experience.</p>
+        <![endif]-->
+
+        <!-- Add your site or application content here -->
+        <h1 id="page_title">
+
+        </h1>
+
+        <h2 id="page_tagline">
+
+        </h2>
+
+        <p id="page_description">
+        </p>
+        <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.0.min.js"></script>
+        <script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="js/vendor/jquery-1.12.0.min.js"><\/script>')</script>
+        <script src="js/plugins.js"></script>
+        <script>
+function getMessage(targetURL) {
+    var ajaxcall = new XMLHttpRequest();
+
+    ajaxcall.onreadystatechange = function () {
+
+        if (ajaxcall.readyState == 4 && ajaxcall.status == 200) {
+
+            var text = JSON.parse(ajaxcall.responseText);
+            console.log(text);
+            document.querySelector("#page_title").innerHTML = text.title;
+            document.querySelector("#page_tagline").innerHTML = text.tagline;
+            document.querySelector("#page_description").innerHTML = text.description;
+
+
+        }
+
+    }  
+    ajaxcall.open("GET", targetURL, true);
+    ajaxcall.send();
+}
+getMessage("text.json");
+
+
+
+     </script>
+
+        <!-- Google Analytics: change UA-XXXXX-X to be your site's ID. -->
+        <script>
+            (function(b,o,i,l,e,r){b.GoogleAnalyticsObject=l;b[l]||(b[l]=
+            function(){(b[l].q=b[l].q||[]).push(arguments)});b[l].l=+new Date;
+            e=o.createElement(i);r=o.getElementsByTagName(i)[0];
+            e.src='https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js';
+            r.parentNode.insertBefore(e,r)}(window,document,'script','ga'));
+            ga('create','UA-XXXXX-X','auto');ga('send','pageview');
+        </script>
+    </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/messages/text.json b/messages/text.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e8fb400
--- /dev/null
+++ b/messages/text.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+"title": "Home Page",
+"tagline": "This is the tagline",
+"description": "this is the description!"
+}
\ No newline at end of file
