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Alyssa Gregory, the autueur¹ of Small Business Idea Generator blog.has a post 7 Dummy Text Generators: Which Is Your Favorite? on Sitepoint. Five I’ve known and used; two were new.

As I’ve been tinkering with the design of my primary blog – Popular Logistics – I’ve started to identify the problems (let’s hope I’ve done it accurately):

• great variation in the length of posts (from one sentence to many pages);
• variation in author style (three and growing, the latest being the military historian Alan Cate, and the fourth to be announced shortly)
• heterogenous use of images and styling elements (e.g. pull-quotes)

So the use of dummy text in a sandbox – which as much as is possible approximates the posts in the blog you’re developing – is an important testing tool.

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1. Pretentious, wasn’t it? But by me, not Ms.Gregory. Just another demonstration of Simon Elvery’s WP Footnotes plugin. [↩]