Busy
September 23, 2008
The good news is that I’m too busy to post. The bad news is that I’m too busy to post. Here’s a quickie, and once I wrap up a couple of things I’ve been working on, I’ll hop back in the blogging saddle.
Many designers use Lorem Ipsum as dummy text in their layouts. Why?
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English.
So where can you get your own Lorem Ipsum text? http://www.lipsum.com/ It’s free, easy to customize, and is much less distracting than: “There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain” over and over again.
mmmm….fluff. :) That IS where i get my lipsum though. I also use the Lipsum Mac Widget: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/corporateipsum.html
Comment by Jack — September 23, 2008 @ 11:13 pm
Thanks for the link, Jack. I’d never seen this before!
Comment by Leslie Tane Design — September 24, 2008 @ 9:36 am
Ah, I was just recently reminded of the joys of lipsum — we did a new web design and put some of our actual content on the test page (over my objections), and the committee that was supposed to approve the site design got completely sidetracked nitpicking the text instead. Why hello, yes, I AM pulling out my own hair, why do you ask? So we had to go back and put in lipsum to get them to focus.
elizasmom’s last blog post..Pets
Comment by elizasmom — September 24, 2008 @ 11:03 am
AM- How about when you use pictures for placement, and the comments run “Who are those people? They don’t work here…”
Ah, the joys of working with a committee.
Comment by Leslie Tane Design — September 24, 2008 @ 11:25 am