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20th March 2010 - Link Blog

Placehold.it. Useful dynamic image generator for layout mockups—just drop an image in to a page pointing at http://placehold.it/300x200. Takes optional arguments for text, colour and format as well.

Posted 20th March 2010 at 2:32 pm

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