HTML-ipsum.com

February 16, 2009 4 Comments

This post is part of my “Web Monkey’s Toolbox” series, which focuses on one web application or web site that will make life easier for those of us who spend our time creating web sites, graphics, and writing code for the web.

Believe it or not, some of the most time consuming parts of creating a templates for the web is time spent whipping up place holder text to demonstrate how various elements will display. Things like unordered lists, block quotes, normal paragraphs, tables and so forth all take up little bits of time which, quite honestly, are just annoying. That’s where HTML-ipsum.com comes in.

The premise is simple: Load the site, copy the placeholder content you need complete with the respective HTML tags and paste it into your code. BAM! What might have taken you a couple of minutes to type out is done and behind you in about 30 seconds. Ever since I found it, I’ve found myself saving time by visiting this site more and more.

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  • http://nuke718.livejournal.com/ Nuke

    Kinda cool. I wish I had it when I was fiddling with HTML years ago. I pretty much quit a looooong way back.

    Nuke’s last blog post..You don’t have to be a twit to help

  • http://burrowowl.net Burrowowl

    Much as I like lipsum as a source of filler when seeing whether a layout just plain works (such as when testing across various browsers), it’s always important to try to put in some more context-appropriate text when making sure that the layout feels right. You only get so much of the tone of a webpage by its colors and images. A good example would be the “What’s cooking” link on this site’s top navigation bar.

  • http://blog.logtar.com logtar

    Great site, but better than that, great series dude. Looking forward to the next.

    logtar’s last blog post..Delurk New Theme?

  • http://chunkbot.com msilver

    that’s pretty cool. I do still use lipsum for blocks of text, but this is kinda cooler because I don’t even have to come up with the html tags.