Help

The following information will help you understand what standards we have applied to the site and how to deal with certain file types.

Navigation
Site specification
Browser compatibilities
Printing pages
Bookmarking pages
Saving pages to your PC
Information
Total document size

NAVIGATION
Each of the Xummiemu 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.

SITE SPECIFICATION
The Xummiemu 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.

BROWSER COMPATIBILITY
The Xummiemu web site has been fully tested on a number of browsers on the majority of existing computer operating systems. The Xummiemu website uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to format the textual information within each page. Only browsers from version 4 upwards fully understand CSS formatting.

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.

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.

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.

INFORMATION
Some pages within the xummiemu.gov.mt service are in other formats other than HTML or ASP. These are PDFs. To read these files the user requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

TOTAL DOCUMENT SIZE
It is important that individual files remain small on the web so that download times for a user are kept to a minimum. A single page should never be larger than 120k in size. This is not a figure confined to the ascii text (HTML or ASP file) but must also include the file sizes of all files contained on that page as well (.gif, .jpg, etc).

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