The TMO Blog

Long Shadow Design Previews The New Flat Design Style

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Flat design is established to the point where many are starting to iterate and experiment with the basic principles in ways that break some of the basic rules of flat design while still clearly relying on the style for the overall effect.…
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5 Questions You Should Ask Before Hiring an SEO Consultant

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Establishing your brand online can lead to higher sales and profits, but the first step is always getting your site high enough in the search engine rankings that potential customers can find you. But, search engine optimization can be intimidating…
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Best Places To Find Free PSD Files

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Raw, high-quality PSD files are one of the most treasured finds online for web designers. They aren't particularly easy to find, especially compared to all of the readily available resources out there like tutorials, scripts, and templates.…
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Top 100 Fortune 500 Companies Aren’t Optimized For Mobile

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Google has made it very clear that mobile SEO is going to play a big part in their plan moving forward. Last month, Google's webspam team leader Matt Cutts stated as such during the SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle and Google's own Webmaster…
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Why Prototyping Tools Shouldn’t Keep You From Sketching

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Conceptualizing a mobile or desktop site has never been as easy as it is today with the huge range of wireframing and prototyping tools at our fingertips. Long gone are the days of sitting down with pen and paper and tossing away pages every…
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What is Coming For SEO in The Second Half of 2013?

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It took a couple weeks for everything to even back out after the recent Penguin update, and now its time to start looking forward to what is coming up in SEO. It is an especially good time to make predictions for the rest of 2013 as we are just…
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The Thirteen Rules of Good UX

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User experience is more important now than ever. A few years ago, visitors would put up with a glitchy or poorly functioning site because the internet as a whole was less developed. Now, if one site doesn't work well, visitors will simply look…
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What is Your SEO Consultant Not Telling You?

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Any honest person working in SEO will tell you the industry has its fair share of problems. While many of these problems are a result of less than straight forward information from search engines about how their algorithms actually work, a…
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The “New” Design Trends of the Past Six Months

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We've reached the half-way point in the year, and more than a couple web design websites have started sharing their lists of trends for the year. But, most of these lists seem oddly familiar. Anyone keeping up with the blogs and news has already…
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