This is super geeky, but I can’t help but love it. If you’re like me, you use a lorem ipsum generator such as http://www.lipsum.com/ when you are designing layouts with sample content. But what about generating sample images to see how sizes affect your layouts (like if you’re designing a blog and you might have a variety of images with a variety of sizes linked in that blog)?

Testing, 1.. 2.. 3! Ta-da, my dummy image.

Testing, 1.. 2.. 3! Ta-da, my dummy image.

That’s where the Dynamic Dummy Image Generator comes in!

Sometimes you just need a placeholder image right at your finger tips. Just enter the width + x + height at the end of this URL and off you go!

Example: http://dummyimage.com/640×480

You can either generate one and right click + save as or just hotlink it right into whatever page you want to design. It would probably be nicer if you just downloaded the script yourself though so you don’t kill the poor guy’s server. ;-)

And I’ll do it right now, let’s hope this works!

It’s so stupidly simple, how come I didn’t think of this already? I think it would have been awesome to have this when I was working on some design projects in the past.