The TMO Blog

The iPad Mini Makes Us Question How We Do Design

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The internet relies on agreements and standards to work, especially web design. With the constant barrage of new devices and input types, there is the need for each design to follow these agreed upon practices, less our entire system fall apart.…
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Why Do Some SEOs Still Gather Data Manually?

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SEO relies on data. That's a pretty simple fact. Still, for some reason, some SEOs still do all their research by hand and manually track their performance, usually by making Excel charts that seem to stretch for days. I honestly don't completely…
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What’s Next In Web Design This Year

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We're officially in 2013 now, and it is time to plan for the year ahead, if you haven't started already. Planning means trying to predict the biggest trends that will hit design before they get here, which can be tricky, but there are plenty…
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Yes, The Disavow Links Tool Works

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After Google launched the disavow link tool in mid-October, there were a fair amount of doubters and those that claimed it doesn't work. Dixon Jones from Majestic SEO, a well known and respected member of the SEO community posted in a Google+…
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Online Marketing Predictions for 2013

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As with any business, you not only need to keep up with current trends and updates in online marketing, but you also need to be looking ahead to attempt to predict some of the changes ahead. To help with this task, Business2Community presents…
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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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