Placehold is probably the simplest tool you’ll ever encounter. All you need to do is enter the size of the image after the URL and you are all set.

So if you require an image placeholder for 350 x 350, just enter http://placehold.it/350×350 and your place holder will be created. You can also use it in your code like <img src=”http://placehold.it/350×150?>.

The different image sizes available are 350 x 150, 140 x 100, 200 x 100, 350 x 65. The tool also has some other great options like image formatting, color and text formatting.

Another way to embed fonts for your web, meet The Google Font Directory. It’s lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers.

View font details to get the code needed to embed the font on your web site. Applying a font is easy: just add a special stylesheet link to your web page, then use the font in a CSS style.

Do you wanted to embedded your fonts for your webpage ? No additional plug-ins required, compatible for all modern browser and ease of use ? then it’s time to use Cufon.

Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. With Cufon you can embedded your favorite fonts on your web page, so it will look the same wherever the user open-up your web page, even if they didn’t have the fonts installed.

Cufón – fonts for the peolpe

Have you ever wanted you could style checkboxes, drop down menus, radio buttons, and file upload inputs? Or you could control the look and feel of your form elements between all major browsers?

If so, let’s meet Uniform. Uniform masks your standard form controls with custom themed controls. It works in sync with your real form elements to ensure accessibility and compatibility.

Uniforms needs jQuery 1.3+ installed and has been tested works on all major browsers such as Safari 3+, Firefox 3+, IE7+, Chrome, jQuery 1.3+, Opera 10+.

Uniforms, Sexy forms with jQuery