Work : Sites :placeowl.com

placeowl.com is an owl themed image placeholder service. Images are ubiquitous on the web. Web engineers often need stand-in images when developing web sites if designs are not complete or live content is unavailable.

That is where a placeholder image service is valuable. This site provides dynamically sized images as needed.

<img src="https://placeowl.com/300" />

This will insert an square, owl themed placeholder image sized 300 pixels wide and 300 pixels high. There’s more explanation and options listed at placeowl.com.

placeowl.com is built with PHP 8 and Slim, a PHP micro framework. The site also uses MySQL for data storage and Redis for caching.