Introduction

This site has been developed with a view of assisting you in understanding the operations of the Government Property Department and the services it offers.

If your aim is to gain a general understanding of the GPD, then the GPD's mission can be viewed at the Home page. The pages About the GPD provide an overview of the Department's roles as well as a historical recount of the GPD's development.

The FAQs link at the bottom of the page provides a comprehensive list of Frequently Questions and Answers designed around the more common queries relating to the functions of the Department and its directorates.

The links to the Finance & Administration Branch, Estate Management Directorate, Land Directorate and Joint Office are on the other hand intended to provide an overview of the individual branches/departments constituting the GPD, their specific roles and responsibilities and also links to the respective annual reports.

The Services page is intended to outline the services offered by the GPD and its various directorates and also provides application forms for some of these services. The Resources page provides access to the various laws, policies, and publications related to the GPD as well as links to number of other sites.

All pages on the GPD website are set up to allow access by versions of any browser ranging from IE3.02 and further as well as IE based browsers. Netscape browsers are currently still being tested.

Information on the gpd.gov.mt web site conforms to guidelines designed to help easy navigation. The following information will help you understand what standards we have applied to the site and how to deal with certain file types.

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Navigation

Each of the www.gpd.gov.mt pages has a text navigation section down the left hand side of the screen

There are no graphical navigation buttons within the no frames environment as they are unnecessary devices which can in many cases be more of a hindrance than a help.

The text links include a description box informing the user where the link will go. This can be viewed by placing the pointer over the line of text.

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Site Specification

The www.gov.mt web site has been designed with all users in mind.

The standard outline guide for the site was for an SVGA resolution monitor (800 x 600) using 256 colours. The site is quite useable with specifications lower than this.

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Browser Compatibilities

The www.gpd.gov.mt web site has been fully tested on a number of browsers on the majority of existing computer operating systems.

www.gpd.gov.mt uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to format the textual information within each page. Only browsers from version 4 upwards fully understand CSS formatting.

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Printing Pages

Any page can be printed from the web by the user selecting File - Print from the menu option within Microsoft IE or Netscape.

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Bookmarking Pages

To bookmark a particular page the user selects Favorites, Add to Favorites from the menu option within Microsoft IE or Bookmarks, Add Bookmarks in Netscape.

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Searching

To complete a search the user has to enter a word or collection of words into the text search box. Pressing the return key or clicking on the search button will present the user with a listing of documents which correspond to the search details. These results will be rated, the most complete matches will be listed first, decreasing in relevance as the user goes further down the list.

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Submitting Feedback

www.gpd.gov.mt supplies a feedback form to give users an opportunity to voice their comments on the service.

Once the form has been completed the user must click on the submit button at the bottom of the page. This will forward the information to the www.gpd.gov.mt service.

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Saving Pages

Any page displayed on your browser can be saved to your local drive. Select File, Save as from the menu option within Microsoft IE and Netscape.

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Information/Documents

Some pages within the www.gpd.gov.mt service are in other formats other than HTML or XHTML. These are portable document files (pdf). To read these files the user requires Adobe Acrobat Reader software. If you don’t have it already installed on your computer, you can download Adobe Acrobat reader here.

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