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Featured post, archive list and tag filters.
Tags filter in place rather than navigating away, and the featured post is chosen rather than simply newest.
- .ms-btn
- .ms-card
- .ms-chip
- .ms-badge
- .ms-thumb
- .ms-footer-section
Live
The layout as it renders, in a frame at its own width. Resize the window to watch it respond — the frame is a real viewport.
How to build it
This is the layout's template, read from disk — the same file the frame
above renders, so it cannot drift out of date. Copy it into your own page
and replace the content; every class in it ships in
mcgowan.css.
<header class="ms-topbar">
<div class="ms-logo"><a class="u-link" href="#">Ledgerline</a></div>
<nav class="ms-topbar__nav">
<a href="#">Product</a><a href="#">Pricing</a><a href="#">Customers</a><a href="#">Docs</a>
</nav>
<div class="ms-toolbar">
<a class="ms-btn ms-btn--ghost ms-btn--sm" href="#">Sign in</a>
<a class="ms-btn ms-btn--primary ms-btn--sm" href="#">Start free</a>
</div>
</header>
<div class="u-container u-py-8">
<h1>Writing</h1>
<p>Notes on bookkeeping, small business finance and the occasional engineering post.</p>
<div class="ms-chip-set u-mb-6">
<button class="ms-chip ms-chip--active" type="button">All</button>
<button class="ms-chip" type="button">Product</button>
<button class="ms-chip" type="button">Engineering</button>
<button class="ms-chip" type="button">Finance</button>
<button class="ms-chip" type="button">Company</button>
</div>
<article class="ms-card ms-card--horizontal ms-card--accent">
<span class="ms-thumb ms-thumb--square"></span>
<div>
<span class="ms-badge ms-badge--primary">Featured</span>
<h2>Why we rebuilt reconciliation from scratch</h2>
<p>The old matcher was right 94% of the time, which sounds good until you have
40,000 transactions a month and 2,400 of them need a human.</p>
<p class="ms-stat__meta">Priya Kaur · 18 August 2026 · 12 min</p>
</div>
</article>
<div class="u-grid u-grid-cols-12 u-mt-4">
<div class="u-col-12 u-col-md-4"><article class="ms-card ms-card--media ms-card--fill">
<span class="ms-thumb ms-card__media"></span>
<div class="ms-card__body">
<span class="ms-badge">Finance</span>
<h3>Making Tax Digital, plainly</h3>
<p class="ms-stat__meta">11 August 2026</p>
</div></article></div>
<div class="u-col-12 u-col-md-4"><article class="ms-card ms-card--media ms-card--fill">
<span class="ms-thumb ms-card__media"></span>
<div class="ms-card__body">
<span class="ms-badge">Engineering</span>
<h3>Ledgers are append-only or they are wrong</h3>
<p class="ms-stat__meta">4 August 2026</p>
</div></article></div>
<div class="u-col-12 u-col-md-4"><article class="ms-card ms-card--media ms-card--fill">
<span class="ms-thumb ms-card__media"></span>
<div class="ms-card__body">
<span class="ms-badge">Company</span>
<h3>We are hiring two engineers</h3>
<p class="ms-stat__meta">28 July 2026</p>
</div></article></div>
</div>
<nav class="ms-pagination u-mt-6">
<a class="ms-btn ms-btn--sm ms-btn--primary" href="#">1</a>
<a class="ms-btn ms-btn--sm ms-btn--outline" href="#">2</a>
<a class="ms-btn ms-btn--sm ms-btn--outline" href="#">3</a>
<a class="ms-btn ms-btn--sm ms-btn--outline" href="#">Next</a>
</nav>
</div>
<footer class="ms-footer"><div class="ms-footer-inner">
<div class="ms-footer-section"><strong>Ledgerline</strong><p>Bookkeeping that keeps up.</p></div>
<div class="ms-footer-section"><strong>Product</strong><p>Features<br>Pricing<br>Integrations</p></div>
<div class="ms-footer-section"><strong>Company</strong><p>About<br>Careers<br>Contact</p></div>
<div class="ms-footer-section"><strong>Legal</strong><p>Privacy<br>Terms<br>Security</p></div>
</div></footer>