portfolio
Welcome to Jonathan Horak's portfolio. Here you'll find overviews of the major contributions I've made on/to the World Wide Web in the past couple of years.
Before reading the highlights, however, make sure to note the following. Some design aspects on these pages are a bit advanced for a certain browser (cough, Internet Explorer, cough) that hasn't had a major update since the Fall of 2001.
Make sure, therefore, that you view these pages with a modern web browser. We recommend Mozilla Firefox.
bloghorns.com
Bloghorns, or Blog, Horns! if you prefer, is a blog community of and for students, Texas Exes, faculty and staff of The University of Texas.
We welcome everyone to post blog entries to Bloghorns, so long as the content submitted is pertinent to the University.
blogzilla.org
Frequent contributor to Blogzilla, a weblog featuring "news, tips, info, links, and hacks related to the Mozilla project." More.
You may now ask "What's Mozilla?" Mozilla is an open source programming community, created through the public release of Netscape source code in 1998. The Mozilla community develops: Mozilla Firefox, a next generation web browser; Mozilla Thunderbird, an email and newsgroup client and many other fine products.
bush2004.com
Paul Walhus, of Spring, came across my site via Austin Bloggers and sent an email asking if I'd be interested in some work.
When first told about Bush2004.com (over the phone), I thought Paul needed help with a Bush 2004 campaign site. Say what? Later, I found out the site is actually Bush satire — "ah, much better" — and went to work.
The site's layout intentionally mimics the official George W. Bush campaign site, GeorgeWBush.com (2004-07-17 archive of the site — around the time Bush 2004 went live). Yet the underlying code of Bush2004.com, unlike its parody fodder, was produced using web standards compliant XHTML/CSS.
ilovemikelitt.com
Mike Litt's voice to the people is ilovemikelitt.com. There, you'll find information about Mike's Half-Silly, Half Serious platform for Student Government (SG), among other things. Make sure to check it out — he's a riot.
I do believe this site is the first fully XHTML/CSS compliant SG campaign site at The University of Texas, but I could very well be very wrong.
Regardless of the details, Mike Litt for Homecoming King!
Drats, it appears Mike didn't renew his domain; well then, please visit my archived version of ilovemikelitt.com.
philfung.com
Phil Fung has a phenomenal grasp of color. I say this not as an artist (or even an art critic) but as someone who has seen his works in person.
It is for this appreciation that I agreed, without hesitation, to create a portfolio site when asked — during the course of my summer stay in New York. As usual, the website was built using XHTML/CSS standards.
Update: The site I built no longer exists at philfung.com. (Not sure why...? I never received any notice that my work would be taken down.) Please visit my archived version of the site.
thewritingsonthestall.com
The Writings on The Stall is a project site for an idea that took shape at the end of 2001. My intention has been to create a collection of writings found specifically on restroom stalls.
Stalls, believe it or not, serve as (informal) forums for politics, pop culture, humor, and so forth. What better, then, than to bring the best of these writings out to the world over this thing we call the Internet? Thoughts and ideas that once were localized can now be made globally available. Huzzah!
Silicon Valley says The Writings on the Stall is "not suitable for those with an aversion to the sort of stuff written on restroom walls"; we wouldn't disagree.