About

I was born Greg Cooper on the 29th August, 1990. I grew up and lived in the little village of Dufftown, Scotland until the tender age of 17. Months before my 18th birthday I hit the road and ended up in Coventry, England with my second job ever.

My time was spent developing personal projects and some freelance stuff for 8 years until my lucky break. During the 8 years I developed things such as Klydo a niche social network for designers and developers, Wicture a picture sharing site with a twist and Zedtu a portfolio platform for myself and Caleb Mingle.

The largest of all my developments has to be Kurbed which over it’s 7 month life span generated a good bit of interest for my level of community awareness at the time. Had quite a lot of developers and designers helping out on a free basis. On the 8th month it changed names to Kurby and interest in purchasing half of it was struck up then disappeared. By the 10th month it had renamed again to Klydo which is an acronym for “Keep Logging Your Days Online” to show that Klydo was a place for storing and sharing you information in a log like manner.

Klydo was indeed how I got my second ever job which was the position of Web Designer at Youmeo. I worked there for exactly one year before everything went wrong but whilst I was there it was very relaxed, chilled out and gadgets galore!

At Youmeo I spent most of my time coming up with new ideas and concepts to activate the sex drive in people’s minds when it comes to websites (not porn). Everyday I sat beside poor Simon who has to deal with my constant babbling and random filming of his doings.

I’ve now moved on to open a social web development company called GNRation with Simon from Youmeo and Joshua from the other side of the world. It has a couple of products such as Zood, Tweet O’Clock, Screenkast and 19Sites. We’re hoping to develop Zood as our full-time product and progress with it in a business sense.

My actual abilities in web designing or development are not huge but wide enough for me to get by. I code in HTML and CSS and the trick stops there. Been coding longer than I have been designing and I’ve only been using Photoshop for about 3 years now, previously all my design work was on Paintshop Pro 7 (5 years out of date even back then). Habits are hard to break so I put a lot of work into moving myself onto Photoshop to improve my range of design ability as PSP limited it a LOT! I generally code in one of my favourite applications Coda by Panic and I recommend it to anyone on Mac OS X.

Outside of web development I love Apple, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Forumla 1, Playstation 3, Cream Soda, Gran Turismo and… Yorkshire Puddings.