Posts Tagged ‘textexpander’

Aug 04
2010

When designing for the web, placeholder images can come in handy during initial layout, and even during wireframing, if you happen to wireframe in markup. I’ve been using a TextExpander snippet to generate instant placeholder images at any size (almost) and with appropriate titles using Placehold​.it. It’s a really handy snippet to have in your web design toolkit.

Just create a new plain text snippet, title it “Placeholder Image,” give it whatever shortcut makes sense to you, and then add this code:

May 07
2010

I’ve seen a few people around the ‘net sharing their TextExpander snippets, so I thought I’d join in. Not familiar with TextExpander? It’s a Mac utility that expands short snippets into full text you’ve defined. There are quite a few programs that do text expansion (see Typinator), but TextExpander currently holds my heart because of its extra features such as shell scripting, completion suggestion and a new Fill dialog for variable input.

Most of my snippets are specific only to me, such as email signoffs and abbreviations for companies I work for…