She may be new to Westport, but Ellie Kalatzi ‘13 is no stranger to Wordpress and page design.

Kalatzi grew up in Greece and Germany before moving to the United States. Last year, in Los Angeles, she created the website for her school paper, the Calabasas Courier.  Although the site’s layout makes Kalatzi seem like an old pro at technology, she was new to website programming before designing the Courier’s page.

“I didn’t even know how to copy and paste,” Kalatzi said. “It was rewarding to learn it myself.”

Kalatzi is focused on details, down to the shade of gold used on the website, a hue that varies just slightly from the school’s official color. With her precise eye, Kalatzi earned the title of Web Master at the Courier.

While looking at other high school news websites for design inspiration, Kalatzi came upon the Inklings website and got a glimpse of the paper before even knowing that she would be attending Staples.

Now that she works on Inklings, Kalatzi wants to use her experience with InDesign and Photoshop and focus on the layout of the paper and web.

Kalatzi already has ideas to keep Inklings in readers’ “favorites” list, envisioning a more eye-catching breaking news banner and an increased use of widgets and interactive technology.

Although well-acquainted with picas and pixels, Kalatzi is less experienced with writing articles. Kalatzi is looking forward to broadening her horizons this year, but her main focus is keeping Inklingsnews.com looking dapper.