The TMO Blog

How To Use The Restrictions of Monochrome To Set Your Design Free

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The limits that come from working with a strict color scheme can feel restricting and maybe even frustrating at first, but once you've put in some thought, it is easy to see the effect they can have on a design. Strict color schemes add coherence…
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Great Resources: Design Tools For Programmers

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Design isn't for everyone. There are plenty of programmers who can attest to that. It is absolutely required for people to believe your site looks credible, but design is intimidating and confusing. For programmer Anna Powell-Smith, design…
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Left Nav Flyouts Don’t Work, Please Stop Using Them

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Mobile navigation can be difficult because you are forced to condense everything your site or app offers into a simple list or set of buttons. For the iPhone, three naviagational patterns rose up that are fairly good solutions to the problems…
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My How Web Design Has Changed

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Web design changes so quickly. If you don't think it has changed that much, think about web design 3 years ago. Not just the styles popular at the time, but the way they were made. The entire system websites used to go through as they were created…
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The Myths and Misunderstandings of Mobile SEO

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It is shocking to me how many people write off mobile SEO as being unimportant or overhyped. Just taking a quick look at the rising rates of people searching with mobile devices makes it pretty clear how much of the market is dominated by mobile…
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Facebook’s ‘Nearby’ Expands Reach

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I've always thought that the 'Nearby' feature of Facebook was fairly pointless. Evidently, the folks at Facebook agreed to an extent and have found a way to improve the feature and turn it into a "search and discovery tool". In addition to…
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AdWords Most Important Changes of 2012

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2012 saw Google make a number of important changes and updates to AdWords. I've touched on most of these here, but for a nice summarized rundown you can head the iNeedHits blog. These changes are all ways to improve your online marketing strategy…
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The Future of SEO [Infographic]

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As the year draws to a close, everyone of course looks to what the past year indicates for the one coming up. I've already covered one article of year end analysis, and now Search Engine Watch and Mavenlink have made an infographic covering…
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Image Is Everything [Infographic]

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You've probably already heard about the importance of images on the web. They catch the eye, foster interest, and statistically make people spend more time on any text than they would without pictures. It's all true, visual media is consistently…
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