 |
Handpicked News For Internet Developers - Since 1999 |
« The New Kingpin of Online News? | Main | Number one skill for managing a website »
April 22, 2005
The Web: A Work in Progress
On Monday, the always-bouncy Boing-Boing published a post about text greeking-you know, the "lorem ipsum" placeholder text that designers often use to flesh out a layout while waiting for final copy. That post got me to thinking: how many Web pages have gone live with placeholder text of one kind or another? Sounds like a job for Google-and a great way to procrastinate while looking busy.
A Google search for the phrase lorem ipsum dolor sit amet yields scientifically questionable results—many sites now have posts about text greeking as well as "lorem ipsum" text that you can copy and paste into your own term papers.
But if we add a couple of arguments to the search to omit phrases like greek text and dummy text, we start to get some reasonable (that is to say, embarrassing) results ...
Continue Reading "The Web: A Work in Progress"
(Thanks Zeldman)
Posted by Don at April 22, 2005 07:30 PM
|
Web Professional Proposal Kits - Accurately quote your projects, multiply your profitability, brand yourself as a top professional and close the sale. ProposalKit helps you demonstrate that you are the right professional for your customers. It's mission-critical, easy, customizable, accurate and immediately downloadable.
|
