About the Author

Tessa Blakeley Silver's background is in print design and traditional illustration. She evolved over the years into web and multimedia development, where she focuses on usability and interface design.

Tessa owns a consulting and development company hyper3media (also pronounced as hyper-cube media): http://hyper3media.com. Prior to starting her company, Tessa was the VP of Interactive Technologies at eHigherEducation—an online learning and technology company developing compelling multimedia simulations, interactions, and games, which met online educational requirements such as 508, AICC, and SCORM. She has also worked as a consultant and freelancer for J. Walter Thompson and The Diamond Trading Company (formerly known as DeBeers) and was a Design Specialist and Senior Associate for PricewaterhouseCoopers' East Region Marketing department.

Tessa has authored a few books for Packt Publishing, including Joomla! 1.5 Template Design (ISBN: 7160).