With great design comes great responsibility, usually that responsibility comes down to popping in ‘content’. At the design stage this content hasn’t even been thought about (in most cases) so what are you left with?
Good old Lorem Ipsum or as I like to refer to it, ‘Borem Ipsum’.
Where did it all begin?
Well contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero.
Why do we use Lorem Ipsum?
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.
JOHNSONS TOP 5 ALTERNATIVES TO BOREM IPSUM!
1) http://cupcakeipsum.com/
2) http://www.fillerati.com/
3) http://lorizzle.nl/
4) http://chrisvalleskey.com/fillerama/
5) http://baconipsum.com/
Go forth, fill your boots and don’t get bogged down with Borem Ipsum (your clients might even appreciate it)!