Hey guys,

Important information first!

For those of you who haven't heard, my good friend Wayde and I have started a Newcastle based web design and development company called Newism. It took us a while but finally "soft launched" our new site. There's still a fair bit of work to be done but we are getting there.

As a result Newism has now been accepted in the ExpressionEngine Pro Network which is great news for us and our clients!

One of the reasons why it took so long to get the site up and running is because I have been so busy publishing more ExpressionEngine extensions, modules and plugins.

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LG Better Meta 1.7.0 - Improve your sites SEO with custom page titles, descriptions, robot meta tags, sitemap generator and more.

My personal favourite is the 1.7.0 release of LG Better Meta which now includes an ExpressionEngine sitemap generator! Not only can you improve your ExpressionEngine sites SEO you can now tell Google about it at the same time.

The LG Better Meta extension adds a new tab to the publish and edit tabs of the ExpressionEngine administration. The included plugin renders the individual entry and site meta data, which when used correctly will create SEO optimised pages and search engine sitemaps.

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LG Live Look 1.0.0 - Preview ExpressionEngine entries in the publish/edit tab

The next ExpressionEngine extension that I released was LG Live Look 1.0.0. LG Live Look is a Multi-Site Manager compatible ExpressionEngine extension that allows you to preview weblog entries in the ExpressionEngine control panel. A Live Look tab is added to the publish / edit form which displays the populated entry template and a Live Look link is added to the CP edit tab entry table.

If you want to know more about LG Live Look and how to setup your ExpressionEngine templates I wrote a post about it over on the Newism Blog.

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LG .htaccess Generator 1.0.0 - Easily remove index.php from your ExpressionEngine URLs

Finally, I have written and ExpressionEngine extension that effortlessly generates a .htaccess file allowing you to remove the index.php from your site. I creatively called it LG .htaccess Generator and wrote about it over on the Newism Blog.

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bigTarget.js - Increase the size of click targets and get more call-to-action conversions

For something a little different I wrote a jQuery plugin called bigTarget.js. This little jem turns a whole region of your page into a clickable target rather than just a measly little link. It's been pretty popular featuring on the front page of Ajaxian.com and getting a mention in the jQuery Twitter feed. Don't just take my word for it go check out the writeup on the Newism Blog.

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Thanks for bearing with me on a unusually long blog post but it had been a while since my last one. I hope you find all my latest releases useful. If you like them please bookmark them on your social networks and spread the word.

Cheers Leevi