Here is a skin that only becomes visible during mouse-over. The first time user is guided to the right spot for the navigation buttons by a narrow text strip at the bottom. That text strip acts as the "training wheels". Once you understand where the buttons are and what they do, you make the text bar disappear, but keep the functionality of the invisible navigation buttons.
http://www.sphericalpanoramas.com/invisible-skin.html
Carel Struycken
invisible skin with training wheels
The pano was taken at the Avalon Theater on Catalina Island. It was the first theater that was built for movies with sound. The building is Avalon's main landmark. It is called the Casino, but was never a gambling house. It has an enormous ballroom on top of the theater and in the first half of the 20th century it was on the itinerary of every big band. The building is very well preserved with spectacular powder rooms and a long winding ramp to walk up to the ballroom. A complete pano tour of the building will soon follow 
I have made the invisible skin without the strip at the bottom the standard for all panos, although it still needs a bit of tweaking: http://www.sphericalpanoramas.com/blog/
Carel Struycken
I have made the invisible skin without the strip at the bottom the standard for all panos, although it still needs a bit of tweaking: http://www.sphericalpanoramas.com/blog/
Carel Struycken