As a web designer or developer, when building a website or app, there comes a time you will need to add images to project to have an idea of how the web project gonna look like when it finally ready.
Designing images of vary size and kind to fit into the website you are building can be a headache. the use of placeholders allow you to easily embed images to that website without you having to design any images thereby allowing you to focus fully on the work at hand.
In no particular order, below are some top, efficient and best placeholders in the internet today.
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Placehold.it
This placeholder service provide a quick and simple way to add image placeholder. it has a very comprehensive guide on how to make use of their placeholder service.
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Placebox.es
Placebox.es is a free image placeholder service which both novice and experienced web designers can use in their template designs. it service is 100% free and you can use it as much as you like and on any page or project you wish.
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placekitten.com
A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. Just put your image size (width & height) after our URL and you’ll get a placeholder.
Like this: http://placekitten.com/200/300
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flickholdr
Get placeholders related to the site you are developing, by pulling images from flickr based on tags.
Like this: http://flickholdr.com/200/300
or with tags: http://flickholdr.com/200/300/sea,sun
New, in B&W: http://flickholdr.com/200/300/sea,sun/bw
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Cambelt.co
Yet another Functional Placeholder Images.
To generate an image for your site, it is as simple as setting the source “src” property of an image file to this website, with the dimensions of the image that you want.
For example: <img src=”http://cambelt.co/300×200″ />.
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Placeskull.com
placeskull is a simple placeholder graphics service. It returns scalable vector graphics of random skulls in dimension and color as defined in the url.
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Placeape.com
A simple placeholder images for ape and monkey lovers everywhere!
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Pipsum.com
This is an easy to use text and image placeholder generator.
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Imageholdr.com
Imageholdr is an image placeholder service for every type. It is the much-needed tool for any web designer/developer job that involves images. Use it to keep your spot filled on the page as you proceed towards your final design.
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Pixelholdr.com
A simple to use image placeholder service that works with any topic
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Lorempixel.com
Placeholder Images for every case. Webdesign or Print. It’s simple and absolutely free! Just put the custom url in your code like this: <img src=”http://lorempixel.com/400/200″ /> to get your FPO / dummy image.
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Placedog.com
Want a Dog, Dogs are so superior to felines. Just choose your dimensions in the pathname and share the doggie love on your projects.
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Griddle.it
A clean and simple way to align your website layout. No complex grid frameworks necessary.
Just put your dimensions after our URL, and get a background guide to work with in your browser. Grids are created on the fly, so any combination should work.
Take a look at the live demo →
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Placesheen.com
PLACESHEEN is a quick and simple service for getting pictures of Charlie Sheen© for use as placeholders in your designs or code. Just put your image size (width & height) after our URL and you’ll get a placeholder.
How to use?
Real simple. Need image placeholder of dimensions 200×300 px? Just set http://placesheen.com/200/300 as your image source attribute. You’re done! -
beerhold.it
An Image placeholder For thirsty web developers and designers 😀 -
Placehold.net
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Instasrc.com
Instantly get real image placeholders for your development site!
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Holder.js
Holder renders image placeholders entirely on the client side.
It works both online and offline, and offers a chainable API to style and create placeholders with ease.