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GUMMIBEAR FIZZ

Profiler's name:Gummibear Fizz
Judging is done on a base of five questions
each question grants you a possibility of 20
points total

Question ONE
Did the person use every color in the palette
and did they use it in an unique way, that shows
they where not just trying to "put it in their"

Yes, every color is used, and in a way which seems visibly pleasing to the eye, colors aren't just tacked on for show.

20/20

Question Two
Is it visually appealing? On first glance what do
you want to keep visiting, or does it strike you
as simply boring.

Yes, gummi's profile shows a ton of visual appeal, it makes me want to explore the rest of the page and not exit out faster then you can say geewizz the use of the colors doesn't make my eyes hurt.
The only visual problem I have with it is the user bar, I missed it on the first look through, but then again that's just me.

however the page does seem to scroll a bit to far to the right, and the bottom scroll bar is rather gross.

the red text on the green at the bottom is sort of hard to read, other then that the visual appeal of this profile is spectacular.


17/20

Question Three
Is the profile flawed? what are the problems with
the profile, loud autoplay music, miss-coded
sections.

I mentioned the hard to read text, and the bottom scroll bar, but also I have a problem with the dotted edge around the profile, personally I find it to be a bad touch to the elegant profile, on the left hand side it might add some spice, but on the right it seems sort of wonky :/


18/20

Question Four
Was effort put into it? Does it look as if the
person placed time and strain on their work?
Or did they slap it together to fit the theme?
Surly effort was put into it, it is easy to see while looking at this profile that time was placed on it, it shines through as one of gummi's best works
the brush work, and image placement is well established, the colors are balanced out, and a love for the theme is shown.

20/20

Question Five
Is the content accesable? is a userbar present,
about section easily readble, can you leave a comment
ect. [note this does not have to be details, journal ect.]

Everything is present, the content is shown, and easy to read, with regards to the bottom link section

the comments are easy to read, and finding them is simple.

Perhaps on a quick glance through you might miss the userbar, I think a hover effect would have been simple and could have enhanced it.

17/20

Final Comments
What are your final comments on this profile, sum up your thoughts here please.
I'm sorry I judge too easily D:

FINAL SCORE 92

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Profiler's name: Gummibear Fizz
Judging is done on a base of five questions
each question grants you a possibility of 20
points total

Question ONE
Did the person use every color in the palette
and did they use it in an unique way, that shows
they where not just trying to "put it in their"

Yes, the creator used the colors in a creative way that seems suitable for the profile.

20/20

Question Two
Is it visually appealing? On first glance what do
you want to keep visiting, or does it strike you
as simply boring.

Yes, it is. I love how the main content body is designed.

I also love the links section below the main content, but it seems a bit awkward with it's placement and/or design. Overall though, the links section is a nice touch.


17/20

Question Three
Is the profile flawed? what are the problems with
the profile, loud autoplay music, miss-coded
sections.

When you hover over the status bar links, the links cut off on some of the buttons (like "Trade") and they don't cover the whole word. Other than that, I don't notice any immediate flaws.


19/20

Question Four
Was effort put into it? Does it look as if the
person placed time and strain on their work?
Or did they slap it together to fit the theme?

Yes, it looks like the person put a lot of effort into the layout, i.e. with the application of brushes. The layout and design of the profile make it seem like it was thought-out.

However, the brushes can be a bad thing too. In a few places, it looks like a bunch of brushes were just slapped down to take up space. This isn't necessarily bad but it doesn't show any extra effort either.

19/20

Question Five
Is the content accesable? is a userbar present,
about section easily readble, can you leave a comment
ect. [note this does not have to be details, journal ect.]

All of the sections are accessable. A userbar is present, but it looks a bit awkward in its position; it seems like it should be on top, not below.

The sections left alone are fairly easy to read, but the highlight orange can cause the words to be harder to make out.

15/20

Final Comments
What are your final comments on this profile, sum up your thoughts here please.

Instead of putting "DO NOT STEAL GRAPHICS OR THE CODES D; I'LL CUT YOU TO DEATH >:[" you should put "I'LL BITE YOU TO DEATH". 8D

FINAL SCORE 90/100



91

Profiler's name:Gloss And Curl's
Judging is done on a base of five questions
each question grants you a possibility of 20
points total

Question ONE
Did the person use every color in the palette
and did they use it in an unique way, that shows
they where not just trying to "put it in their"

Use of the color's is obviously shown, the whole profile revolves around just those colors,

20/20

Question Two
Is it visually appealing? On first glance what do
you want to keep visiting, or does it strike you
as simply boring.

For the most part yes, I love looking at the design, very unique to say the least, however the only thing that strikes me is how un-even parts look
and how much is going on

14/20

Question Three
Is the profile flawed? what are the problems with
the profile, loud autoplay music, miss-coded
sections.

Just a few things I dislike, first I have a reg monitor so the profile scrolls for me, and with such little on the right it seems pointless.

I think the comments could be wider, they look sort of out of place.

Under theme and inspiration, I think it's kind of pointless for a scroll bar with so little, a small section + scroll bar usually = :[
just write a little less.

15/20

Question Four
Was effort put into it? Does it look as if the
person placed time and strain on their work?
Or did they slap it together to fit the theme?

I see a great effort put into it, from the typographic aspects, to the use of the colors, it seems this profile was planned out

19/20

Question Five
Is the content accessible? is a userbar present,
about section easily readable, can you leave a comment
ect. [note this does not have to be details, journal ect.]

sure plenty of text to read once again, comments present.
nifty link section. so on

however once again the userbar is not present :/

18/20

Final Comments
What are your final comments on this profile, sum up your thoughts here please.
Gloss's profile is put together rather well. Personally I like seeing your profiles, and hope to see more of them in the future. I think if anything it would be good to focus on your content rather then the graphics.


FINAL SCORE 86

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Question ONE
Did the person use every color in the palette
and did they use it in an unique way, that shows
they where not just trying to "put it in their"

Yes, the creator did a good job with coordinating all of the colors and displaying them in a way that made them flow well together.

20/20

Question Two
Is it visually appealing? On first glance what do
you want to keep visiting, or does it strike you
as simply boring.

The layout itself would be nice-looking, but there is a repeating background the GREATLY draws away from the beauty of the main content. The repeating background makes it look sloppy instead of clean-cut and smooth. The profile does not strike me as boring when I visit it; at least, not compared to most typography-only profiles. However, the background....D:

Here's a picture of the background BTW:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v667/DeathDestroyMe/1summerheat/1gloss.png


10/20

Question Three
Is the profile flawed? what are the problems with
the profile, loud autoplay music, mis-coded
sections.

As mentioned above, the background is a big part. When I first saw the profile earlier in the week I liked it, but I'm judging how it currently is, not how it was earlier. The repeat definitely looks like it's not supposed to be there.

The profile has autoplay music, but it can be turned off. The user replaced the Gaia logo which isn't allowed.


15/20

Question Four
Was effort put into it? Does it look as if the
person placed time and strain on their work?
Or did they slap it together to fit the theme?

It looks like there was a lot of effort put into the theme to make all of the colors work, i.e. coloring the name with a different color for each letter.

20/20

Question Five
Is the content accesable? is a userbar present,
about section easily readble, can you leave a comment
ect. [note this does not have to be details, journal ect.]

Yes, the content is accessible. I like the links located in the bottom-right corner. There is no userbar, but you can leave comments.


19/20

Final Comments
What are your final comments on this profile, sum up your thoughts here please.

Please fix the background. D;
Other than that, the profile is pretty nice.


FINAL SCORE 84/100

85

Profiler's name:catastrophii
Judging is done on a base of five questions
each question grants you a possibility of 20
points total

Question ONE
Did the person use every color in the palette
and did they use it in an unique way, that shows
they where not just trying to "put it in their"

I want to say the map has some use of the color, and the links I guess
But overall the colors just seem placed into an already done profile :/

15/20

Question Two
Is it visually appealing? On first glance what do
you want to keep visiting, or does it strike you
as simply boring.

Their's not much to look at, simple is ok, but in this case simple is far to simple to retain much interest, the only real nifty thing is the section stars, and the unique concept

15/20

Question Three
Is the profile flawed? what are the problems with
the profile, loud autoplay music, miss-coded
sections.

of course due to hovering sections things lap over each other for a moment.
The only other thing, is the level of transparency on the about section, it makes the text real hard to read :/


18/20

Question Four
Was effort put into it? Does it look as if the
person placed time and strain on their work?
Or did they slap it together to fit the theme?

It's semi-hard to tell with cata's profiles, I think effort was placed into the design, being a perfectionist, I'm sure she went over everything till it was shining.

However, I do think more effort could have been placed into this profile :/

17/20

Question Five
Is the content accesable? is a userbar present,
about section easily readble, can you leave a comment
ect. [note this does not have to be details, journal ect.]

Text easy to read, sections ect.

Only concern is hard to find rollover at first
and no userbar.

17/20

Final Comments
What are your final comments on this profile, sum up your thoughts here please.
Cata's profiles usually make me very happy, they're usually well thought out, and full of plenty of "good design" principles. However on this particular one, I haven't seen nearly enough of "cata" as I have in her past profiles.


FINAL SCORE 82






Profiler's name: Catastrophii
Judging is done on a base of five questions
each question grants you a possibility of 20
points total

Question ONE
Did the person use every color in the palette
and did they use it in an unique way, that shows
they where not just trying to "put it in their"

They did use every color, but it definitely seems like it was thrown on at the last minute. The only use of the color were the little squares in the lower-right corner of the content. They were not used elsewhere. The way they used it could be considered unique, but it doesn't match the profile at all and it doesn't seem like it belongs.

5/20

Question Two
Is it visually appealing? On first glance what do
you want to keep visiting, or does it strike you
as simply boring.

It's not too visually appealing, since the graphics are pretty much just a map. However, the profile itself is extremely creative. Using a map in this situation was an interesting idea.

However, at first glance (before you try the hovers), the profile does not seem too special. Once I tried the hovers though, it was kind of fun to mess around with.


10/20

Question Three
Is the profile flawed? what are the problems with
the profile, loud autoplay music, miss-coded
sections.

Sometimes the hovers are hard to use, especially the quilt section. I'll have to move my mouse a bit and hover again before the section will actually change.

However, there aren't any real coding flaws or anything.


19/20

Question Four
Was effort put into it? Does it look as if the
person placed time and strain on their work?
Or did they slap it together to fit the theme?

Hmm...well, in appearance it does look a bit slapped together because of the lonely color palette. However, upon thinking of the actual coding, it seems like effort was put out to make all of the hovers work and display properly. That seems to be the only big part though. I would recommend changing the link color (hover especially) in the future.

15/20

Question Five
Is the content accessable? is a userbar present,
about section easily readable, can you leave a comment
ect. [note this does not have to be details, journal ect.]

It is accessable, but it can be a bit hard for users to find. If someone was not experienced with profiles it might be hard to navigate. There is no userbar present. You can leave a comment. For the most part, the About section is readable.


17/20

Final Comments
What are your final comments on this profile, sum up your thoughts here please.


FINAL SCORE 66/100

74

Profiler's name:Ioathkeeper
Judging is done on a base of five questions
each question grants you a possibility of 20
points total

Question ONE
Did the person use every color in the palette
and did they use it in an unique way, that shows
they where not just trying to "put it in there"

all the colors seem to be present in the profile

20/20

Question Two
Is it visually appealing? On first glance what do
you want to keep visiting, or does it strike you
as simply boring.

Oath's profile is appealing, but the use of the inner content being the same color as the outer content provides an effect of blandness :/
and the auto play music makes me slightly annoyed

15/20

Question Three
Is the profile flawed? what are the problems with
the profile, loud autoplay music, miss-coded
sections.

Autoplay music is one thing, even if it's not loud, one thing of design is you always have to please your customer or in this case visitor, if the visitor doesn't like your music they want to turn it off, if they can't they're not going to spend much time on your page.

the brush work is all very pretty, but the comments section seems to be lacking depth, along with the about, they just seem tacked on.



15/20

Question Four
Was effort put into it? Does it look as if the
person placed time and strain on their work?
Or did they slap it together to fit the theme?

I'd say a significant amount of effort was placed into the profile, but it does seem to based on a singular brush.

16/20

Question Five
Is the content accessible? is a userbar present,
about section easily readable, can you leave a comment
ect. [note this does not have to be details, journal ect.]

no user bar, the about section can get annoying due to the background, but that's a slight annoyance :/

16/20

Final Comments

What are your final comments on this profile, sum up your thoughts here please.
Personally I feel oath is coming along in his profiles, one thing I would say is players are the way to go, not everyone likes music, some listen to their own why surfing the web.
Another thing I seem to see is a lack of depth in the background, a pattern, another color to stick it out.

work on your profiles, they are nice, but a square with brushes is just that, find a wow factor and make it your own.



FINAL SCORE 82


Profiler's name: i-O a t h k e e p e r
Judging is done on a base of five questions
each question grants you a possibility of 20
points total

Question ONE
Did the person use every color in the palette
and did they use it in an unique way, that shows
they where not just trying to "put it in their"

Yes for the most part, although the way the colors were used isn't extremely creative.

19/20

Question Two
Is it visually appealing? On first glance what do
you want to keep visiting, or does it strike you
as simply boring.

Not really. The creator did a pretty good of making the colors not clash, but the profile looks kind of bland. A big turn-off is the "Army of Flowers" font; it doesn't fit well with the soft feel of the profile because it's so large and in charge. The centering on the About section makes it look extremely unbalanced.

The brushes used are not bad and don't look too bland. However, something about the profile looks a bit dimensionless. It is probably the fact that the content background and body background are of the same color. It makes the profile seem like a big block of yellow with some brushes, borders, and words thrown on it. The content should be the main part, not the color of the background.



10/20

Question Three
Is the profile flawed? what are the problems with
the profile, loud autoplay music, miss-coded
sections.

Once again, loud autoplay music that can't be turned off. Here is my quote about that from Shangrii's ap, as this is the same situation:


Quote:
OMG NON-TURN OFF AUTOPLAY = VERY BAD

I can't stress this enough. Autoplay itself is bad, but can be acceptable if it has the ability to be turned off. Autoplay without a turn-off button is usually just not a good idea because many people will not want to check you profile. This turns to very bad for judging, because if you're asking someone to look and rate your profile it is rude to force them to listen to your music. It makes the judge want to take as little time as possible with your profile because they want to get rid of the music as soon as possible. I was able to reconcile this issue by blocking the media link, but for users without the ability to block it could be a bigger issue.

Also, as someone has pointed out to me, the auto-play also increases the loading time of the profile and makes it load slower. So that's twice as bad.


Other than that, I don't really see any coding issues or anything.


10/20

Question Four
Was effort put into it? Does it look as if the
person placed time and strain on their work?
Or did they slap it together to fit the theme?

It doesn't look like there was much effort put into the theme. It isn't that hard to make a border and put a bunch of brushes on it. There isn't much content on the profile either.

There was some effort put into the coding. You get great kudos for editing the Gaia navbar, because I love when people do that. The way you did it was nice as well.

13/20

Question Five
Is the content accesable? is a userbar present,
about section easily readble, can you leave a comment
ect. [note this does not have to be details, journal ect.]

Yes, the content is pretty accessible. There is not a userbar, but there is an add comments link. However, all of the links on the page are a bit hard to read because of the size and font of the text. The About is fairly reasonable when it comes to reading ability, but there is a little orange leaf that makes it harder. It would be easier if the leaf was just removed.

18/20

Final Comments
What are your final comments on this profile, sum up your thoughts here please.


FINAL SCORE 70/100

76