Do you put a Lorem Ipsum as a filler on a website preview?

[Dartz]

Personally, I used to see the whole Lorem Ipsum thing as a rather stupid idea, but now that I do some freelance template design, I use it to save time typing up a whole paragraph or leeching from an RSS feed.

Heres some details on Lorem Ipsum if you need a primer.
http://www.lipsum.com/

[donna]

I use Lorem Ipsum. Makes it really easy and quick to add filler text. The site you link to in your post is a good one Dartz, really interesting info (if you are geeky like that... I am, ) I've often used their Lorem Ipsum generator.

[fridrich]

Originally Posted by donna

I use Lorem Ipsum. Makes it really easy and quick to add filler text. The site you link to in your post is a good one Dartz, really interesting info (if you are geeky like that... I am, ) I've often used their Lorem Ipsum generator.

Is it really helpful?

[donna]

Originally Posted by fridrich

Is it really helpful?

I think so. If I'm designing a site or publication and want to see how it looks and behaves with content in it - to fill out divs or tables or whatever, it's much easier to add Lorem Ipsum than trying to write enough to fill in a 'normal' amount of content.

Some people just take a sentence like, "Some content here" and paste it over and over to fill in a content block. The trouble with that is the text is too similar... you don't get a real idea how real text is going to flow, how it's going to look with your headline and paragraphs. I'm a real stickler for spaces between paragraphs and readability. Lorem ipsum has the quality of real paragraphs in English.

I've also found that if you are doing design for clients, Lorem Ipsum really helps. At a glance it looks like real content... but they can't read it. It always amazes me how many people focus on the irrelevant details. Instead of focusing on the design and layout (which is what they have asked you to do for them) they focus on the fact that your filler text has a typo in it, or it's not what they want to say... when to you it's obvious that it's just filler text, your client could be focusing on that instead of what you want them to focus on.

The generator creates the number of paragraphs that you want and it's just much handier and quicker than copying and pasting from another document I find.