Bernard Jan's Blog - Posts Tagged "website"
My Domain
The day has come. I have it! Now! Finally!
My own domain.
BERNARDJAN.COM
Yesterday was the day when I did that major change in my Internet appearance and life. I still have to do Google-related changes and stuff (ugh!), but it is already available for browsing, with much simpler and more memorable URLs.
I invite you to visit www.bernardjan.com and share with me my enthusiasm and happiness!
Hope you enjoy it and please don't hesitate to share and recommend my web page to others if you like it. (Not hard to imagine a happy grin on my face!)
Thank you!
Bernard Jan
My own domain.
BERNARDJAN.COM
Yesterday was the day when I did that major change in my Internet appearance and life. I still have to do Google-related changes and stuff (ugh!), but it is already available for browsing, with much simpler and more memorable URLs.
I invite you to visit www.bernardjan.com and share with me my enthusiasm and happiness!
Hope you enjoy it and please don't hesitate to share and recommend my web page to others if you like it. (Not hard to imagine a happy grin on my face!)
Thank you!
Bernard Jan
Lightbox, Cookies, Subscribe
Last week I had entered some strange period when absolutely nothing was happening with my book A World Without Color. Whatever I tried to plan or do was in vain. The forces of heaven, earth and the universe united against me and I could not make a single step forward. The thought of walking into a formatting nightmare didn't help the least in breaking free from the chains of inefficiency and desperation.
Such days and such times happen and will happen again, I have no illusions. The key is in making the best of what you get when nothing is as you want it to be.
And so I did. I continued networking on Twitter and Goodreads (If you don't follow me there feel free to do so) and updating my website by adding the lightbox with a “Subscribe to my blog Muse” (I will be thrilled if you subscribe to it!) and the short notification about cookies.
I don't have to tell you what it means to be an indie author and when someone subscribes to his list, how much it means and is appreciated, how encouraging and motivational this is.
So let's say a bit more about those famous cookies. As the resident of the EU, on my website I have to post the notification about the use of cookies. Unfortunately, it is not something sweet and tasty to eat but, as nicely put by my Wix provider, small files or other pieces of data which are downloaded or stored on your computer or other device, that can be tied to information about your use of the website you visit. All websites use cookies to provide the services and features offered on their website—mine included—to improve their user experience. Once you are on the website, you can either agree to such use of cookies or delete and later disable them, but then you may experience interruptions or limited functionality in certain areas of the website.
Now we are all a bit smarter about cookies after also indulging the EU legislation that wants us, the website owners, to warn you, our visitors, fans and followers, about the little monsters we keep hidden in the secret labyrinths of our pages that will jump on you and eat you alive before you get to click X for exit or close the window!
Don't worry, I don't eat anything or anyone who walks, flies, swims, crawls breaths and thinks, so you are pretty safe with me. My book designer Marijo Kožar from MKM Media can confirm that. He survived an hour on the phone with me on the relation Rome—Zagreb as he was helping me to set up the lightbox which looks much more elegant than my successful but ugly previous attempts with two separate pop-ups which I happily and quickly removed!
You haven't seen a thing and I don't think cookies will tell anyone about that either. Wink, wink!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Join my mailing list, subscribe to blog Muse!
Bernard Jan
Such days and such times happen and will happen again, I have no illusions. The key is in making the best of what you get when nothing is as you want it to be.
And so I did. I continued networking on Twitter and Goodreads (If you don't follow me there feel free to do so) and updating my website by adding the lightbox with a “Subscribe to my blog Muse” (I will be thrilled if you subscribe to it!) and the short notification about cookies.
I don't have to tell you what it means to be an indie author and when someone subscribes to his list, how much it means and is appreciated, how encouraging and motivational this is.
So let's say a bit more about those famous cookies. As the resident of the EU, on my website I have to post the notification about the use of cookies. Unfortunately, it is not something sweet and tasty to eat but, as nicely put by my Wix provider, small files or other pieces of data which are downloaded or stored on your computer or other device, that can be tied to information about your use of the website you visit. All websites use cookies to provide the services and features offered on their website—mine included—to improve their user experience. Once you are on the website, you can either agree to such use of cookies or delete and later disable them, but then you may experience interruptions or limited functionality in certain areas of the website.
Now we are all a bit smarter about cookies after also indulging the EU legislation that wants us, the website owners, to warn you, our visitors, fans and followers, about the little monsters we keep hidden in the secret labyrinths of our pages that will jump on you and eat you alive before you get to click X for exit or close the window!
Don't worry, I don't eat anything or anyone who walks, flies, swims, crawls breaths and thinks, so you are pretty safe with me. My book designer Marijo Kožar from MKM Media can confirm that. He survived an hour on the phone with me on the relation Rome—Zagreb as he was helping me to set up the lightbox which looks much more elegant than my successful but ugly previous attempts with two separate pop-ups which I happily and quickly removed!
You haven't seen a thing and I don't think cookies will tell anyone about that either. Wink, wink!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Join my mailing list, subscribe to blog Muse!
Bernard Jan
My New Landing Page
Do you like multi-genre, friendship-themed, emotional, and passionate stories?
Are you captured by lyrical, poetic, and cinematic writing?
Is love for animals and all colors something you deeply care about, too?
Then look no further!
YA and mature readers, this is the place for you!
SUBSCRIBE TO MY MAILING LIST
This is from my new landing page. Check it out and, if you are not on my mailing list, please subscribe now!
By subscribing to my newsletter and mailing list, you will receive free (e)books, updates, book release details, book reviews and other promotional material and related valuable information like interviews with other authors and artists, invitations to free webinars and much more.
I never send spam and will never pass on your details. Don’t forget, you can unsubscribe at any time.
Thank you and welcome!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Subscribe to my mailing list.
Follow me on Twitter.
Bernard Jan
Are you captured by lyrical, poetic, and cinematic writing?
Is love for animals and all colors something you deeply care about, too?
Then look no further!
YA and mature readers, this is the place for you!
SUBSCRIBE TO MY MAILING LIST
This is from my new landing page. Check it out and, if you are not on my mailing list, please subscribe now!
By subscribing to my newsletter and mailing list, you will receive free (e)books, updates, book release details, book reviews and other promotional material and related valuable information like interviews with other authors and artists, invitations to free webinars and much more.
I never send spam and will never pass on your details. Don’t forget, you can unsubscribe at any time.
Thank you and welcome!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Subscribe to my mailing list.
Follow me on Twitter.
Bernard Jan
Bye Bye, bernardjan.com
Bye bye, bernardjan.com.
With regrets and sadness, I must say that this is the last post on my Wix Premium website. How appropriate, since after today, May 8, 2025, bernardjan.com is no more.
Because of an enormous increase in my Wix Premium plan price from $342.5 to $600.00 USD for two years, Wix has forced me to give up on my paid site and go for a free one. 300 USD for a year is too much for the website, which brings me no profit but merely serves as my diary or the catalogue of all the things my books and my author life related.
I will lose many advantages, and I can only guess what will happen to some (or all) of my posts because of the smaller storage space. We will see soon. It just makes little sense paying so much for something that is not profitable.
It feels like giving up on my baby, and all the work and love I have invested in it in the past nine years. At one point, my first thought was killing it and deleting it from online life. When emotions calmed down and disappointment and fury ceased, I decided on a free website with the possibility of deleting it anytime later if it becomes too much of a burden and a sad reminder of the better days we had in the past.
Long story short, in the coming days I will have to update my free website new URL everywhere on my social media and also in all my eBooks and paperbacks published on Amazon. I will also have to adjust my privacy and cookie policy for the new/old URL of my website.
This means that bernardjan.com will be replaced with bernardjanofficial.wixsite.com/bernardjan.
And my subscribe link bernardjan.com/mailinglist will be replaced with bernardjanofficial.wixsite.com/bernardjan/mailinglist.
As I said, bye bye, bernardjan.com.
With regrets and sadness, I must say that this is the last post on my Wix Premium website. How appropriate, since after today, May 8, 2025, bernardjan.com is no more.
Because of an enormous increase in my Wix Premium plan price from $342.5 to $600.00 USD for two years, Wix has forced me to give up on my paid site and go for a free one. 300 USD for a year is too much for the website, which brings me no profit but merely serves as my diary or the catalogue of all the things my books and my author life related.
I will lose many advantages, and I can only guess what will happen to some (or all) of my posts because of the smaller storage space. We will see soon. It just makes little sense paying so much for something that is not profitable.
It feels like giving up on my baby, and all the work and love I have invested in it in the past nine years. At one point, my first thought was killing it and deleting it from online life. When emotions calmed down and disappointment and fury ceased, I decided on a free website with the possibility of deleting it anytime later if it becomes too much of a burden and a sad reminder of the better days we had in the past.
Long story short, in the coming days I will have to update my free website new URL everywhere on my social media and also in all my eBooks and paperbacks published on Amazon. I will also have to adjust my privacy and cookie policy for the new/old URL of my website.
This means that bernardjan.com will be replaced with bernardjanofficial.wixsite.com/bernardjan.
And my subscribe link bernardjan.com/mailinglist will be replaced with bernardjanofficial.wixsite.com/bernardjan/mailinglist.
As I said, bye bye, bernardjan.com.
