lorem ipsum.
what is it?
"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. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. 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, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32."
why do we use it?
"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."
here is a random lorem ipsum text generator - it's very helpful for nailing down designs. HERE
I HAVE TOOOO MUCH TEXTTTTTTT - HOW DO I ORGANIZE IT?!?!
and here is a nice little grid system website for visually organizing your mess. sometimes you get a client with a ton of text and it's frustrating to try and make it fit within the design, let alone make it visually appealing: this website showcases some creative solutions HERE
