Forums » Suggestions & Development Discussion » Support for placehold.it

I'd like to suggest, if it's possible, a way for support to go in for using placehold.it's capabilities. For the unfamiliar, placehold.it is a website where you can generate gray blocks of any dimensions and use them as a placeholder image on your websites. It's a pretty popular tool for designers, allowing us to put in IPH (image placeholder) files while building templates and waiting on graphic design work to be completed.

In any case, the reason I suggested this is that I know some of our users like to get really creative with their RPRs, and I could see it being really useful. Why? Personal experience! I am attempting to fancy up some of my own RPRs, and since I did not immediately have images made (as I wanted to put down the layout first), I attempted to use placehold.it but there appears to be no support here on the website. Direct links simply link to the image (e.g. no use of the IMG BBC) and using the IMG BBC just produces the line of code but with no block.

Now, I know I can simply create the image blocks myself but part of the beauty of PHI is that you can just simply create your own dimensions and adjust the little line of code as needed. I have no idea if this is something that could be implemented given that, well, code is a fickle thing. It would still be nice to have, I think, if at all possible.

All you have to do is add .jpg to the end of the filename, like so:

And it works.

Ahh, thanks! Feel free then to do something dastardly with this topic.