The Nietz » images http://www.thenietz.com Sniffing out tech Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:16:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Something Cool: dummyimage.com http://www.thenietz.com/2010/03/16/something-cool-dummyimage-com/ http://www.thenietz.com/2010/03/16/something-cool-dummyimage-com/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:53:30 +0000 Stephen http://www.thenietz.com/?p=200 I am amazed no one thought of this yet. I cannot tell you how much time I spend in PhotoShop or Fireworks creating placeholders for images. Invariably they all come out looking poor.  On a wireframe they stick out like a sore thumb and clients just cant see past them.  Well, those days are over.  Need a FPO for 350×250 image?  Easy. Just point your browser to:

http://dummyimage.com/350×200

and viola!:

350x200

Any combination of height and width’ll work.  It’s simple and elegant.  And it gets better…

In addition to height and width, you can do all the standard ad sizes, screen resolution, even video format.  For a full-sized banner, just use:

http://dummyimage.com/fullbanner

fullbanner

Different colors? alt text?  jpg or png? just as easy:

http://dummyimage.com/400×100/0099ff/CCCCCC&text=TheNietz

TheNietz

Too lazy to save your own images and don’t want to link to their site?  They have that covered too, just download the source (MIT license) and run it on your own server.

If you do wireframes, this is a must-add to your toolchest.

[dummyimage] via [lifehacker]

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