| Many Web designers are finding out that to add solid functionality to their sites, they need to learn to integrate design goals with server solutions. Perl is an extremely powerful and flexible way to help designers achieve their goals.
In this book, we’ve created a Web site workshop that provides all the scripts and programming you need to put Perl into action right away. Whether you are a designer, or anyone interested in adding functionality to a site using Perl, this book takes a very practical approach.
Instead of starting out by learning the language, the book is divided into chapters that focus on different applications that a Web developer might want to include on his or her site: forms, games, and more advanced techniques. These scripts are ready to go, and the reader need only follow step-by-step instructions to help install and then modify them to individual tastes.
Along with the book comes a CD, chocked full of Perl, Perl modules, and the book’s scripts.
The book works as a practical device to empower readers with the ability to add multiple levels of functionality, doing so while keeping cross-browser and platform concerns in mind. But, ideally, the workshop will serve also to inspire the reader to want to learn more about Perl so as to empower him or her to grow in skill and understanding of the role of Perl in Web design. |
