You could use actual dummy text instead of lorem ipsum. ie: "This is dummy text. This is a sentence that talks about sport as the copy for this section will be inserted later to discuss sport."

The purpose of lorem ipsum is to remove distractions. It's textual noise to say "here is where text will go, and how long it can be, but we're not focussing on copy at the moment".

These randomly generated actual pictures are still worth 'a thousand words', as it were, instead of saying nothing like lorem ipsum does.

I thought this might generate the equivalent to lorem ipsum text before I clicked through and was disappointed.

(not saying our page looks great now, but it's definitely progressed from some pretty ragged looking early versions)

"Everything looks great but we're not crazy about the vegetable picture you chose."

"...Yes we agree, that is a temporary image and can be ignored."

So, placing a real image as a placeholder is not a good idea.

Sort of defeating the purpose, isn't it?

http://flickholdr.com/

Otherwise, it adds a bit of risk if you have sensitive clients. "Nurse" and "nursing" can return photos of nurses at work, a nurse smoking a cigarette in an old ad, women in sexy nurse costumes, or a river otter. The quality is also extremely variable.

Just add a query string: "http://lorempixum.com/230/180/fashion?#{rand(10000)}

Thanks for sharing.

For instance: http://lorempixum.com/output/sports-h-g-640-1920-8.jpg, http://lorempixum.com/output/fashion-h-c-300-420-7.jpg

http://www.brumfieldhay.com/images/PurinaLogo_LG.JPG

Personally I would change it to avoid trademark issues. Although you might be okay as long as you don't use a red colored version of your logo.