About Me

Hello my name is Peter Smith, I am responsible for this web site and it’s contents and yes that my ugly mug in the photo here on the right, I am located in Lytham St Annes which is situated on the Fylde coast of Lancashire and I work from home designing web sites.

I am fully conversant with HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML and I also have a good grasp of JavaScript and at the moment I am learning PHP, these are the programming languages that are used to make web pages interactive, JavaScript is processed in the browser locally whereas PHP is processed on the server, and each language has it’s own particular uses, strengths and weaknesses like any tool.

although I have no formal qualifications in IT, I do have a great interest in computers, networks, the internet, gadgets etc, and over the last few years I have taught myself using books, help files and the internet for research, plus lots of trial and error along the way.
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In my spare time I read books on web design and development and browse web sites and blogs on the subject, as well as keeping up to date with the latest web standards specifications defined by the W3C, and experimenting with new techniques to continually develop and improve my skills.

The Site

When I originally created this site, it was hosted on the free web space provided by my ISP and it was intended to provide a safe place where I could test out new techniques and store information as I learned about web design and development, hence the sites original name, theSandBox.

Since then the site has quietly evolved and grown and I have added information about learning HTML and CSS and registered the domain name, this was when I had to chang the name of the site slightly to syntaxSandBox which is still in context with the sites content, this was because the sites original name had already been registered by someone else.

To format of the word syntaxSandBox I used a programming convention that can be employed to join multiple words when creating variable names, by starting the combination word with a lowercase letter and then capitalise the first letter of each subsequent word, so that the variables name describes it’s contents.