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My name is Sara Pitt

I'm a web developer and artist

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Screenshot of Templating System website.

Templating System

Robust and flexible

We needed a way to create hundreds of landing pages quickly with a wide variety of features and text, and this was the solution.

This system uses a single config file and some child sections to create fully customizable landing pages, and has made hundreds of them to date.

Visit Templating System
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Template Reference

Automated ease

This site is a reference for all of the different possible sections in a templating system I built. It pulls directly from the templating system, so whenever a new section is added to the system, it is automatically added (and organized) to the template reference

I made this to help the design and sales teams have an easier time creating designs for our partner landing pages.

Visit Template Reference
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booklist

Pure obsession

I wanted to learn more about React, so I made a site that functions like React...but with vanilla JS.

Also, I'm suuuuuuuuper into the "romantasy" genre so making a website for that seemed like a good call.

IYKYK.

Visit booklistGo to repo
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JS Array Functions

More fun than it sounds

I wanted to memorize all of the JS array methods so I built this site. Update: I have not memorized all of the JS array methods....but the site was super fun to build.

Visit JS Array FunctionsGo to repo
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Windows 95

Because why not?

Shoutout to the vintage OS. Just a fun little project.

Visit Windows 95Go to repo
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New Directions

Beautiful and understated

New Directions is a site I’m proud to be a part of. It was also built using Gutenberg and React and provides the client with an incredible editing experience.

Visit New Directions
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One Southern Indiana

APIs and Ads

1si was an incredibly fun site to build. Some highlights included building a custom plugin to connect to a third part API to pull in events, as well as a utilizing a common Ad Plugin (with some custom tweaks) to integrate ads into various parts of the site dynamically.

Visit 1SI
Screenshot of The Parklands website.

The Parklands

Incredibly beautiful and incredibly complex

This site was challenging (fun) from an information architecture standpoint. The various locations are categorized through relational taxonomies, and all searchable from an interactive map.

I’m also proud of a complicated Alert system that allows the client to create site-wide, park-specific, and location-specific alerts with expiration dates. The alerts use dynamically produced cookies to disappear after being read.

Visit The Parklands
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Frost Brown Todd

So many things

An incredibly flexible and intuitive search experience, complex and beautiful data relationships and taxonomies, a custom-built WP Walker Nav, nested modals, and a user-friendly back-end editing experience make this site one of my favorite builds.

Visit FBT
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American Printing House

Accessibility for all

…or at least as close as you can get. We learned A LOT about accessibility while working on this site. Besides needing to meet strict a11y standards, this is also an e-commerce and membership site. A beautiful beast of a project.

Visit APH

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I’VE DONE SEVERAL THINGS

Over 10 years ago (yikes), I was a newly graduated artist who needed a portfolio website and for some reason decided I was going to build it myself. According to Amazon, I purchased a book on HTML and CSS for “visual learners” on May 10, 2012.

THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF MY DEEP AND ABIDING LOVE FOR CODING.

As my artistic career grew, I began freelancing as a developer to supplement my income. This was an exciting time spent having art shows, residencies, national fellowships, and doing some creative consulting with a multinational corporation. Meanwhile, my freelancing business afforded me incredible opportunities like touring around the US with bands and the time/freedom to really explore my art.

The Allure...

At some point the allure of code was stronger than the allure of the art world, and I began freelancing as a developer full-time. The steady income and flexibility allowed me to travel the world for a year with a group of 40 strangers in a program called Remote Year (10/10).

The Jump...

After successfully running my own freelancing business for 5 years, I decided that I wanted to jump in a little deeper, and have since worked at both an incredible ad agency named Mightily, and an amazing corporation called Heartland Payment Systems.

Over the course of my career I’ve experienced freelancing, agency, and corporate working environments that have equipped me to handle a variety of situations, both technical and social.

I’ve now been a developer for over 10 years now and absolutely love it.

LET’S MAKE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL TOGETHER.