PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

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Post by josem » Wed, Apr 18, 2012, 9:43 PM UTC

PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service
placehold.it

Re: PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

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Post by iusable » Wed, Apr 18, 2012, 10:06 PM UTC

Cool! I don't know how many times I have used a silly 500 x 500 image and just scaled it to random sizes as I built the views. Only to have to go back and check sizes in code when cutting stuff up in Photoshop.

This way I can just keep an instant overview of the pending sizes. Thanks mate!

Re: PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

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Post by josem » Wed, Apr 18, 2012, 10:40 PM UTC

iusable wrote: post #2

Cool! I don't know how many times I have used a silly 500 x 500 image and just scaled it to random sizes as I built the views. Only to have to go back and check sizes in code when cutting stuff up in Photoshop. This way I can just keep an instant overview of the pending sizes. Thanks mate!

Yes, same here. I haven't created the service, but I discovered it while I was checking the code of a prototype made with Foundation (http://zurb.net/zurbwired2011/projects/zurbwired2011/frame/p...) and I thought it could be useful.

Glad to help!

Re: PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

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Post by benbjohnson » Wed, Apr 18, 2012, 11:22 PM UTC

While we're on the topic of ad hoc design tools, I made a site called Iconomus (http://iconom.us) to do something similar for icons.

Re: PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

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Post by avgp » Wed, Apr 18, 2012, 11:29 PM UTC

There's a similar service for that - but with cats! http://placekitten.com/

Re: PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

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Post by lifeinafolder » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 12:38 AM UTC

http://dummyimage.com/ works flawlessly too. I use it a lot in my dev cycles.

Re: PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

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Post by navs » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 12:40 AM UTC

avgp wrote: post #5

There's a similar service for that - but with cats! http://placekitten.com/

There's also

http://placedog.com/ http://baconmockup.com/

Re: PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

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Post by drewwwwww » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 12:52 AM UTC

lifeinafolder wrote: post #6

http://dummyimage.com/ works flawlessly too. I use it a lot in my dev cycles.

dummyimage is in fact made by one of the same guys, which makes the whole exercise confusing, because they appear to have the same interface but with different themes for their marketing.

Re: PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

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Post by duopixel » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 1:58 AM UTC

While developing I prefer not to use internet resources as it degrades load time (important when you are constantly refreshing the page to see your changes).

Instead I use an SVG placeholder that adapts to any size you throw at it: http://jsfiddle.net/yL7Cz/

Re: PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

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Post by prezjordan » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 2:31 AM UTC

Very nice, open source it? I've always been interested in returning images with web apps.