So, as you’ve probably noticed by now, the site looks a little … different today. This has come about for two reasons:

1. I wanted to go with something a little more inventive than the fairly basic theme I’d used so far.
2. I’m officially announcing my status as a freelance developer for hire, which seemed to merit a change in the site itself to go along with this.

Number one is fairly arbitrary, so we’ll skip past that one and go straight to the Big News:

My name is Jim Dovey, and I’m a freelance Macintosh, iPhone, and Apple TV developer available for hire.

Yes, that’s my Real Name™. You can reach me via the email listed in the pull-down shelf at the top of the page (click on the little tag that says ‘pull’). I’ll have a Clients page up sometime soon with the details of what I’ve been doing so far; however, I have to wait for stuff to be officially announced by said clients before I can really say anything publicly about them, so such details will need to wait a little.

However, the first thing I can announce is that I’m partnered up with a designer called David Kaneda to write a Basecamp® application for the iPhone, called Outpost. Head on over & digg that sucker.

The site redesign is very much a work in progress. I’m actually not 100% married to the current design, in fact— I mainly wanted something which would go with the photos of my new business cards, but I might decide to forgo that and make use of a simpler theme with less customization on my part. Who knows? Not me.

The current site design is a modified version of Foliage Mod from 5ThirtyOne. It’s GPL, so if I go with this design I’ll be releasing the finished version here once it’s all tied down.