Placeholder? No such thing.

Temporary solutions have a terrible tendency to become permanent. Anything that you do the quick and dirty way "just to have something in place" is now sort-of working, so there's much less incentive to do it right in the future. Inevitably, you'll have to change something, and redoing it the right way looks hard, but making a small adjustment looks easy, so you do. Eventually, you have an ungodly mess on your hands, which wisdom dictates you trash and start from scratch, but few people do, inevitably spending more effort to maintain a monstrosity.

The first sentences of the first two entries in this log were entered as mere test values, so I could see what the CSS looked like. However, a single sentence is too short, and I needed enough text to see where the margins lay and how text would wrap, so I added some more random gibberings after the initial one. A day later I felt I had added enough of a paragraph to justify leaving them as actual entries, in fact setting the tone for just what sort of things I should jot down in here.