About SwissCemetery.com virtual tomb and graveyard
Content of help
>> Basic use of virtual graves or tombs>> Technical comments
>> Rules and regulations
>> Visit a grave
>> Setup a grave
>> Change a grave
>> Choose an arrangement
>> As time passes
>> The Future
>> Contact Us
Basic use of virtual graves at the SwissCemetery.com
SwissCemetery.com virtual graveyard is a place of solitude and contemplation where you can remember your cherished ones.
You can setup a tomb for any person you wish and visit their grave at any time and from anywhere.
Around the tomb you are able to maintain the grave by bringing simple gifts like flowers,
candles or other decorations and adornments. You may also change the whole arrangement and replace
the tombstone setup with a sculpture or even a monument.
Sample 1: The homepage and the following page with the tomb
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Technical comments
SwissCemetery.com has some requirements to your browser:
Your browsers Javascript capability has to be turned on, or no images can be loaded or changed.
We are using this graphic formats: JPG, GIF, PNG-8 und PNG-24. The Internet Explorer up to version number 6 is not capable to display the transparency alpha canel of the PNG-24 format.
SwissCemetery.com is rich on images, each tomb consists of 6 layers. The lists to select other images shows up to 50 thumbnails, wich need to be preloaded. This may slow down the browser, we hope, you have a large bandwidth internet connection.
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Rules and regulations
On SwissCemetery.com is a place for tombs, graves and monuments of much different beliefes and even for the disbelieferss.
- If you setup a tomb, please select the portrait and the epitaph in respekt to the person, with that name.
- Do not destroy a tomb, don't get involved in a competition of changes, just setup a new tomb with the same name; each grave get it's own ID number.
- Portrait image, name und dates can not be deleted. Also it is not possible to delete a whole tomb from the virtual cemetery. If you have an ethical or legal reason why a specific grave should not be there anymore, please contact us by e-mail.
- We may delete graves on our own judgement, if we think, that personal rights or feelings are hurt with out any anouncements.
- There is no setup fee and no entrance fee for visitors. The user of SwissCemetery.com has no costs and no rights, the owner of SwissCemetery.com has no duties or responsibilities.
- This website is just a demonstration of our ability to design and program a website and databases that is fully functional.
- We will try to keep SwissCemetery.com online as long as possible, but there is no garantie of uninterrupted services.
- In this service, there are no hidden costs (of course you must have an internet connection of your own).
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Visit a grave
You may visit anybody in this virtual cemetery regardless of whether you setup their grave or are just curious.
Search either by first name, family name or by the unique Tomb-ID. Just start typing a name and select from the proposals presented in the field below.
Sample 2: The input field offers you a list of matching founds.
You may as well just click on a portrait of a celebrity at the bottom of the homepage, else select a tomb from the list of all tombs behind the navigation link Tombs.
Sample 3: Quick-links to famos persons and stars finding a rest at SwissCemetery.com.
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Setup a new grave
To setup a new grave for a someone on SwissCemetery.com, open the >> Setup Form and simply complete the Setup Form.
Again, setup is totally free of charge.
The form for the basic setup will openen:
Put family name, first name (no umlauts), date of birth and date of death.
Write an epitaph, provide a small portrait photograph (vertical format, less than 1MB) and select an initial tombstone.
Note: The Names, dates, epitaph and portrait will be the unique features of the grave and can not be changed after setup!
Sample 4: The setup form to setup a new grave.
After this setup, you will see the new tomb. You now have the oportunity to change the tombstone or anything else again and again (except the portrait, the names, the dates and the epitaph).
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Change a grave
To the right hand side of your tomb is a list of thumbnails.
You may test different images and animations, backgrounds and even new arrangements. Click on this preview list to see the effects of the different layers immediately. Once you have found an image or arrangement which appeals to you, just click OK.
Sample 5: Change the tumbstone, the landscape and the cover
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Choose an arrangement
Tombstones, Sculptures or Monuments.
Sample 6: Exaples of our 3 arrangements: Tombstones, Sculptures or Monuments
In the dropdownmenu below the actual list you'll finde more arrangements and decoration lists to select.
If you change a theme, the default arrangement will be loaded.
Each theme has three associated layers, an arrangement with images and animations.
Note: If you will setup a new scenery theme; you can not have both a tombstone and a sculpture or landscape on top of a monument.
If you wish to go back to the original stored tomb, just click the reset link at the dropdown menu where you select your preview lists.
Once you push OK, the tomb as it looks will be stored.
Sample 7: Dropdownlist to select a new theme arrangement
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As time passes
Of course, flowers will not last for ever. Not even stones can resist the ravages of time.
Some of these images will dwindle or animations become more vivid, and if you do not maintain your tomb, then one day it could disappear.
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The Future
At the moment, portraits and epitaphs can not be changed.
In the arrangement with monuments, we would like to implement a form, to upload your own Photography of an original memorial.
Contact Us
For any suggestions, issues or artwork, please mail us. Any feedback is much appreciated and we will endeavor to respond to all your queries.
Please e-mail to following address: support(at)SwissCemetery(dot)com
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