Greg Cooper

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and I’ve only been using Photoshop for about 3 years now, previously all my design work was on Paintshop Pro 7 (5 years out of date even back then).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.

The Awfy Collection

Now that I have my beloved Awfy on Tumblr I’ve decided to list all of the services that I’m registered as Awfy on. So here we go;

Blogs
Tumblr
Wordpress
Blogger
Mashable

Social Networks
Youmeo
Bebo
MySpace
Netlog
Virb
Vorolo
FriendFeed
Ping.FM
BrightKite

Music
Last.FM
PureVolume
Muxtape

Photos
Flickr
Photobucket
TinyPic

Status Updates (Micro-blogging)
Twitter
Pownce
Rejaw
Plurk
Kwippy

Bookmarks
Digg
Delicious
StumbleUpon
Mixx

Video (Streaming)
Vimeo
LiveVideo
Ustream
SideReel

Pixel By Pixel

I’ve spent today doing some pretty detailed work for the new Your Home to be used on Youmeo. Trying to overhaul the entire design so it’s sleeker, faster and cleaner rather than the dull and clumpy design which is on site at the moment.

Planning to try and get the new designs out for sometime in October if Calum lets me. Hope you all enjoy the new designs once their up and running and will be looking forward to your feedback!

8am, 2pm

Was up till 8am this morning doodling on Photoshop and it’s safe to say it doesn’t half knock you to sleep. Still I was forced awake this afternoon by some idiots going over the bridge on their bikes.

Still on with the show going to continue my Photoshopping life and get this spanky design done.

To Do Or Not To Do

I’ve been ticking some things off the to-do list today. One or two of the small ones which just take me a couple of minutes to pass this boring Sunday.

Bloody Drill

I was woke up 10 minutes too early this morning by some idiots outside using a Umatic Drill. No idea what they were doing as I couldn’t be bothered looking out the window to see. Still I had 10 minutes more to have a nice clean shave before I myself nipped into work.

Today I can hopefully get down to some coding so I can get back into my favourite application - CODA.

Chow for now.

Klydo, Yes…

I’ve been thinking about it for a few days now, especially when we had a loss in the office. Someone had stolen all the forks. So I got to thinking how could I save myself from bad times (such as the missing forks incident)? Simple, by creating myself a fit website. With the help of Greenock’s very own Jamie Cassidy I’ve decided I’m going to start building it again. It won’t be a fast process as it will have to be done at nights and weekends which is when I’m usually asleep on my mezza. Still looking forward to my first proper site with ol’e Jamie, done a couple in the past such as PlusVert which didn’t really do anything. Just sat quietly on the internet’s naughty step while we both continued with High School. Anyway I will blog more about it in the future, hopefully with preview of any designs :) Chow

New Link

This morning I decided to buy myself a nice domain to connect to my tumblr as well as refreshing the look of the page. To find me from now on all you got to do is type in www.awfy.me :)