Mac vs. PC My advice: get IPAT See how I lured you in with the promise of a cartoon, only to listen to my unsolicited advice? Sneaky that way am I. The reason you're reading this in the first place is because there's a problem with the template at bLaugh, and it's time to fix it. Being a big fan of bLaugh (the teaser image in static pages all over this site), it was necessary to share the biggest annoyance with the bLaugh template. If you got to the page this comic links to, you'll see comments on the post. But you'll also see mounds and mounds of trackbacks. A lot of templates separate those trackbacks/pingbacks from the regular content (like K2). But it looks like a jumbled mash, and it's difficult to tell when a fan of the comics says anything. Other than using some template separating tricks like they do with K2, I'd suggest they get Inline Pingbacks And Trackbacks, or IPAT for short. This allows you to show the pingback/trackbacks anywhere you want, and you can do like I did, and hide them from the comments. It's tougher to show how this works here, since I don't use comments, but if I did, you'd be able to tell. Trust me. Also, I'd get the apostrophes out of the names. Should be "Macs and PCs." That really isn't a problem with the template, it's more a problem with grammar. To review:

  1. Get IPAT and start cleaning up the comment section
  2. Get a grammar guide or make with the quick Photoshopping

That's really all you need to do, and then bLaugh.com will conquer the universe (or something similar to that effect).

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