You could use actual dummy text instead of lorem ipsum.
ie: "This is dummy text. This is a sentence that talks about sport as the copy for this section will be inserted later to discuss sport."
The purpose of lorem ipsum is to remove distractions. It's textual noise to say "here is where text will go, and how long it can be, but we're not focussing on copy at the moment".
These randomly generated actual pictures are still worth 'a thousand words', as it were, instead of saying nothing like lorem ipsum does.
I thought this might generate the equivalent to lorem ipsum text before I clicked through and was disappointed.
I have to agree. Early on in our page design, we had some nice hi-res pictures we were using as placeholders. The problem was that it made the rest of the page elements look better at first glance than they actually were. Once we knocked out the images, we realized the page looked like crap and we had to go back to the drawing board.
(not saying our page looks great now, but it's definitely progressed from some pretty ragged looking early versions)
You could use actual dummy text instead of lorem ipsum. ie: "This is dummy text. This is a sentence that talks about sport as the copy for this section will be inserted later to discuss sport."
The purpose of lorem ipsum is to remove distractions. It's textual noise to say "here is where text will go, and how long it can be, but we're not focussing on copy at the moment".
These randomly generated actual pictures are still worth 'a thousand words', as it were, instead of saying nothing like lorem ipsum does.
I thought this might generate the equivalent to lorem ipsum text before I clicked through and was disappointed.