The Stationers Guild

Browershots recently showcased the StationersGuild website as an example of superior design incorporating CSS style sheets and user-friendly navigation.    Browershots listed the website in their CSS Gallery along with other website designs which incorporate state-of-the-art design features that comply with web standards.

This is not the first time that the StationersGuild website has been cited by web designers.  Inguna Trepsa of Ante Meridiem Design is responsible for creating this exceptional design for the StationersGuild.  The focus was on ease of navigation, speed in loading relevant information for the online user and a simple “search” feature incorporating Google Maps to help buyers of fine stationery and custom invitations locate qualified stationers in their neighborhood.

Richard May, a founding member of the StationersGuild, notes that “it was a pleasure working with Inguna and aside from her inspired design for the Guild website, she managed to keep the site efficient and easy to navigate for the online visitor.”

Well over a year ago, I received a late night phone call from my teacher, consultant and friend, Bud Kraus.  Bud is the enthusiastic author of Joy of Code, an online course on html and css coding, and avid proponent of designing to standards.  Bud and I had been working on putting together an RFP for a website to help independent stationers be “found” in an online search.  Barely able to contain his enthusiasm, he said “you just have to see this website:  Ante Meridiem Design.”  I did, and I was hooked.

Some months later I engaged Inguna Trepsa of Ante Meridiem Design to help redesign the Therese Saint Clair website and then the StationersGuild.org website, which was a somewhat less ambitious site than Bud and I had orginally envisioned.  While I am not a web designer, it is clear that Inguna’s stunning designs, straight-forward navigation, quick-to-load text and logical coding are clearly raising the bar for great website design.  I have never actually met Inguna or her equally charming husband, Gvido, but we have often connected many times by phone and  email.  Inguna has the singular ability to take vague ideas, moods, ill-defined concepts and turn them into great works of beauty supported by a logical and simple infrastructure.

Our Guild members owe Inguna a big hug and an immense debt of gratitude for helping us design a state-of-the-art website that supports brick-and-mortar stationers and the craftsmen whose fine papers we represent.  Many thanks Inguna.

Richard May
Founding Member, Stationers Guild