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I’ve still got a heck of a lot to learn about developing websites. Sometimes I learn by doing and sometimes I learn by watching the successes and mistakes of others. Here is a mistake I spotted today that cracked me up…

When designers are mocking up pages they sometimes use lorem ipsum text to show what the page will eventually look like. Lots of clever people warn against this because you never really get a feel for the page.

The other problem with lorem ipsum is that sometimes you forget to take it out of the code. Oops…

3 Comments

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  RBeezy November 9, 2007 at 2:49 am

  Leaving it in is inexcusable. but my profs taught me long ago that lorem ipsum is the preferred dummy text because its sentence and paragraph structure are true to form.

  Thus it gives an accurate read on both print and web pages.

  And besides, who wants to grow old waiting for a client to generate content?
• 
  Pema November 9, 2007 at 8:59 am

  True, true. If you’ve got to pump a design out, lorem ipsum is better than nothing. Here is a great point the guys from 37 Signals make about it though…

  “Lorem ipsum dolor is a trusted friend of designers. Dummy text helps people get what the design will look like once it’s fleshed out. But dummy text can be dangerous too.”

  “Lorem ipsum changes the way copy is viewed. It reduces text-based content to a visual design element — a shape of text — instead of what it should be: valuable information someone is going to have to enter and/or read. Dummy text means you won’t see the inevitable variations that show up once real information is entered. It means you won’t know what it’s like to fill out forms on your site. Dummy text is a veil between you and reality.”

  http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch11_Use_Real_Words.php
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  Fuhimmopamp February 24, 2008 at 5:30 pm

  To me it is necessary to find