I don’t know of wix, but I did once use one of those type of template sites and found similar problems as you describe. Some of the help tutorials just didn’t match what I was seeing. I got fed-up with it and abandoned it.
In reading your messgae it occurred to me to wonder if you had considered putting the material on Flickr? It’s not a personal site, true, but it still has a lot of users. I wouldn’t want to use Flickr as a replacement for my personal site but things I put there appear to attract more attention than my personal site—or maybe it’s just that I don’t have the evidence of traffic on my site, whereas Flickr records the ‘views’.
Feedback? well it’s unusual to receive a comment on Flickr (but it has happened) but many people do ‘like’ things on Flickr and I do have a few follwers there. Also there are ‘groups’, where, if the work is of a more specific interest, you could find like-minds.
PLEASE how do I make these dreadful yellow things go away? OMG there's even more of the awful things now.
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