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The front end of the platform was nearing the end. There were only some small functions left that were all just a query to
the specific database tables. These functions (most viewed, highest rating, random) were all done in a very easy and quick
way. The major part that was left on the front was the user profile page. For the user profile page I had a talk with the
designer intern and the company directors. I found that it was best to keep the minimalistic design. While researching
other websites I found that a lot of the websites had too much information on the user profiles. By having too much
information on a page, visitors easily lose track of what they can find on it. We came to an agreement, and I started
working on the user profiles. With Bootstrap it went nice and easy; Most of the information on the user profiles were
already programmed, the only thing that was needed, was to query this information and to present it on the page.

The part that actually required some programming was the ability of a user to change his/her avatar picture. My company
mentor said there was no need to look and research tools to crop and resize uploaded images for the avatars. I was
provided a small PHP tool called PHPThumbs. This small tool was very easy to implement and to use. Very quickly I had
the uploading function of avatars finished. The final layout of the user profile page can be seen in figure 14.

Figure 14: The user profile page layout