2 things: 1. how you host it is largely irrelevant to engagement, unless you buy into the sales pitch of Medium. 2. use forestry.io and you can have a nice wsyi

2 things: 1. how you host it is largely irrelevant to engagement, unless you buy into the sales pitch of Medium. 2. use forestry.io and you can have a nice wsyiwyg editor for your static blog. They've got a opensource sucessor now that's even more... WordPress like, for lack of a better word. Those content section block things whose name i forget. Also, why are you mucking with css/ html to embed a photo in a static blog? Most static blogs moved past that over a decade ago.