Just keep doing what your doing, tactics in the best way to improve at your level, when you get around 1600 or 1700 I would recommend Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman for positional play, but reading My System is also good.
What is the best way to study tactics/ get better at chess?
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Some may disagree, but I think that playing blitz (3 0,5 0) games might improve your ability to spot quickly simple tactical moves. Play a lot and you start to recognize familiar patterns. Reading, studying, analyzing solving tactical problems is good but you need to practice what you learn.
Lately, I've been practicing tactics via chess.emrald.net. When I first started, it helped me alot. Now, It doesn't seem to help me improve. I have studied openings (with Yasser Seirawan's "Winning Chess Openings) and positional play (with Aron Nimzowitche's "My System"- though I haven't completely read through the whole thing).
I just want to know what's a good way to practice. The reason that I think it's about tactics is that I'm still only rated ~1200 USCF.