dummy

Dummy is a toolkit designed to make the development, testing and presentation of web prototypes less time consuming and more realistic. It does so by helping you populate your work with content and by randomizing key aspects of it's layout, in a way, simulating connectivity to a live database, and making it possible to visualize, test and present something much closer to the outcome of a finished project.

Dummy makes it easy to...

• Insert randomly generated strings of placeholder text in commonly needed lengths and formats (e.g., headline, teaser, paragraph)
• Automagically insert newsworthy, cropped-to-fit Creative Commons licensed placeholder images
• Quickly flesh out highly variable, asset rich layouts with friendly, human-readable logic for generating loops and controlling probability

Whether you're fine tuning complex CSS breakpoints, or just slapping together a quick proof of concept, Dummy frees you up to focus on building great stuff. Do It with the time you'll save not pasting in static Lorem Ipsum, hunting down and resizing respectable placeholder images, or continuously adding and removing blocks of code in order to test different design outcomes.

Download

• Download the latest version

  Dummy 1.0

  Approximately 30MB. Includes code snippet libraries for TextMate, Sublime Text 2, and Coda.

More

• This example demonstrates how a simple layout can render many variants with just a few lines of Dummy code. Observe. Reload. Repeat.
• This 8½ minute screencast introduces the core features of Dummy, incidentally detailing how the above example was built.
• Instructions for setting up Dummy, together with a few demos can be found in the documentation.
• Dummy is free and openly developed software. Working together we could make it better.