Alternatively, if you're just looking for a way to put placeholders on a page, image services and javascript solutions seem like overkill. You can achieve the

Alternatively, if you're just looking for a way to put placeholders on a page, image services and javascript solutions seem like overkill. You can achieve the same thing with a bit of css: https://github.com/adamsanderson/placeholder https://github.com/adamsanderson/placeholder