Just my 5 cents

[phberlin]

Nothing special, only my first attempts... But you can see a little bit of Berlin, Germany :-)

Have a look if you like (http://pano.philippkoch.com)

Besides, I'm still having issues with Firefox and the Greybox I am using; the header-image of my site leaves a black area on the very top of the Flash pano (where it overlaps the header image). I hope to solve that somehow, maybe it's some trouble with the z-indexes, but I haven't found it yet :confused: Anyone has an idea about that?

Regards, Ph

[cheathamlane]

Hey there:

Hmmm... In Safari, I get the overaly with a gray header at top; the rest of the box is white & nothing happens.

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[phberlin]

Oh..:neutral: Since I have a PC, I could not test this on the Mac... Well, I guess solving this z-index- or whatever-problem would also make it viewable on Safari (I hope at least). Hhm, I still have no idea what it could be about. Thank for your feedback anyway!

Ph.

PS. You need to have JavaScript (and of course Flash) enabled; otherwise the box stays either white or dark gray with a (German) message that these two things are needed (depending on which of them (or both) is not activated).

[adriansalisbury]

Just a blank box along the top of mine, should this be your navigation? Think your on the right track with the z-index. Let us know when it's fixed, I like it.

[phberlin]

@ adriansalisbury: Sorry, I don't understand: What do you mean by "blank box along the top of mine"?

YAHOO! Found the problem:

a) I had a name conflict: my main css and the greybox css both had an id respectively class named "content", so I changed the greybox.css and the corresponding javascript.

b) I had to change my headers positioning from "fixed" to "absolute" in my main css.

So, it works now with Firefox2, Opera9, IE6 and IE7 on PC. Are there still problems with Safari?

[Dalileis]

Nothing special, only my first attempts... But you can see a little bit of Berlin, Germany :-)

Have a look if you like (http://pano.philippkoch.com)

Besides, I'm still having issues with Firefox and the Greybox I am using; the header-image of my site leaves a black area on the very top of the Flash pano (where it overlaps the header image). I hope to solve that somehow, maybe it's some trouble with the z-indexes, but I haven't found it yet :confused: Anyone has an idea about that?

Regards, Ph

Hi

looks great, greybox and flash, hand in hand.

What I was most stunned by is this:

I am on 3G HSDPA wireless connection in Croatia at the moment.

Usually when I download whatever, I get up to 200-300 kbit/s MAX (very seldom, almost never).

While I was viewing your flash VRs, repeatedly I got over 1.2 Mbit/s speed (!), which has never ever happened, and I checked it correspondingly with other sites, or right thereafter. Repeatedly, I got much slower speeds from any other site around Europe, then from yours, while loading your flash VR. Couple of times up to 1,4 Mbit/s on wireless connection mind you, and only from your site.

I am very interested in what webhost you are using? Are you running your own server? What's the deal? How can you provide such fast loading from your site? This is insanity, it just loads incredibly fast. Other sites don't come near this one. Am I the only one noticing this? I want your webhost! Adopt moa!!

Screenshot:

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/2530/whattafwk7.jpg

[Dalileis]

http://www.finalnet.de/

???

[phberlin]

@Dalileis

Hey, thanks for the screenshot :-)

Yes, it's a damn fast server park -- many big companies host their stuff there. The company you can get your fast servers is Server4You (http://www.server4you.com/us/index.html). On the German section of their site (https://www.server4you.de/de/webhosting/index.php), they also rent webspace (normally you'd rent a whole server there). I don't know their prices, my site is hosted on Finalnet's server (which is hosted in Server4you's server park). Finalnet is my brother's web design company, he does most of the coding of my site for me. (So also it was of course him and not me who fixed the Greybox problem mentioned in my earlier post :-)

Regards, Ph.

[Dalileis]

@phberlin

Looks very nice. Especially the: "Blitzschnelle Internetanbindung mit über 6 GBit" part. It would probably be webspace I'm interested in renting, but sadly they don't seem to offer reciprocal webhosting solution to customers outside Germany, by the looks of it.

This one:

https://www.server4you.de/de/webhosting/showplan.php?products=1

but oriented slightly more towards the european customer, english control panel and "kostenlos Englischsprechender Support-Mitarbeiter über eine 0800-Hotline" would only add niceness to it!

Have to keep on lookout for something similar that I could operate more smoothly globally, support - and controlwise.

Same with finalnet.de.

But if you're German webdesigner/developer, I guess it's: Du Glücklicher!!

[phberlin]

Hhm, I sure you can find something similar elsewhere. Sorry, I don't have tipps for you since before this server I had a terrible hoster, so I do not know an alternative in the way you're looking for. But maybe someone else here?