Uphill and into the Wind

I do some web development work to pad my pockets a little bit and one of the things I always run into when putting websites together is not having the actual content from the customer.  As a result, I use the Lorem Ipsum text which is conveniently available at www.lipsum.com.  The only problem is when I ask someone to look over a site in development and let me know if they see anything that looks strange or should be fixed, the first comment is always  about the Latin text.

I remember seeing the Lorem Ipsum text back in elementary school.  I don’t know why I saw, but I know that’s where I first saw it so I’m assuming other people my age saw it early in life too.  That doesn’t seem to be the case though.  Every friend I’ve asked to look over a website for me has said, “you should really make sure the website’s in English.”

So for future reference, if you ever see “Lorem Ipsum…” it is standard dummy text used in the print and web industry to fill in for actual content that has not yet been written.