Posting Date: August 29, 2002

Lorem Ipsum -- Lorem Ipsum, or Lipsum for short, is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. (Jack comments: You too can generate fake text for space filler in your draft web designs. See also these alternates: Subterrane's generator and Dreamweaver extensions.)

Reader Comments...

I realize John linked to the Subterrane generator in May 2001. I thought the one at lipsum.com was noteworthy because it allows you to generate lipsum in paragraphs, instead of one long text block.

Posted by: Jack on August 29, 2002 11:39 AM

Based on the idea implied by "content driven", is filler text a bad idea?

Posted by: (the other)JS on August 29, 2002 05:17 PM

I fancy the Lipsum Generator myself. Much more "random" than Subterrane's.

Posted by: Shane on August 29, 2002 05:18 PM

hmmm, I must admit I don't like Lipsum as I always read it looking for hidden messages.

Posted by: Mac on August 30, 2002 11:15 AM

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