Key Terms & Acknowledgements

Art Deco – A streamlined, geometric style of architecture and home furnishings popular in the 1920s and 30s

Browser – In the context of this guide it refers to a person looking for items to buy

Crop – To remove unwanted area around an image and give the item the main focus

FTP – File Transfer Protocol

HTML – Hypertext Markup Language (the basic language of web pages)

ISP – Internet Service Provider

JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group (image file format)

SNIPER – A person waiting until the last seconds of an auction before bidding

Oxfam – http://www.oxfam.org

The Beatles – The greatest pop group ever?

Parlophone Records - a division of EMI records http://www.parlophone.co.uk

Clarice Cliff - Ceramic designer 1899-1972 http://www.claricecliff.com/about/clarice/

Irfanview – Freeware image software, available from http://www.irfanview.com/

The Royal Mail – http://www.royalmail.com

Smart FTP - available from http://www.smartftp.com/