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5 Fun Placeholder Image Websites
Speed Up Your Website Development With Creative Visual Elements
Creating a new website has a million little details. Text needs to be written, layouts need to be created. Adding placeholder images can get the ball rolling on creating the layout without finalizing the images that will be used on the website.
Sites like Unsplash and Wikimedia Commons both have images that can be used, usually with attribution. It takes a bit of time to find a suitable image, download it, and resize it for your purpose. Fortunately developers will spend a lot of time creating an automation for tasks that are tedious. Here is a list of 5 placeholder image generator sites with different themes to make this part of the website creation a bit smoother.
Placeholder.com
For a plain, grey placeholder image, placeholder.com is the best. Customize the text and size in the URL. Using the img tag in HTML allows it to be hotlinked. Easy peasy.
Image from Placeholder, with dimensions 600x400 pixels and the text "Hello" printed inside the grey box. http://via.placeholder.com/600x400?text=HelloFakeImg
Like the simplicity of a text image but not the gray? Fake image has a few additional features, including font family, background color, and foreground color…
