Ballast Notes: 3D Illustration blog template
Worked examples on budgeting, emergency funds, debt payoff, fees, pay slips and freelance tax buffers. Round numbers, no product pitches, no get-rich promises.

What's included
- Lead story
- Post list
- Topics
- MDX posts with code blocks and callouts
- Tags, authors and pagination
- RSS feed, sitemap and article structured data
- Responsive down to 390px, checked in a real browser
- Accessible contrast and alt text, checked on every page
- Light theme from one design-token file
- Cloudflare, Vercel and Netlify deploy configs included
4 page designs
Every page is in the download and in the live demo.
Full home page and mobile

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