-This document is a general introduction to Maypole: What it is
-(a framework for Web development), what it does (at the basic
-level, it converts a URL
-(e.g. C<http://www.mysite.com/product/display/12>) into a
-method call (i.e. "perform the C<display> method on item C<12>
-in the C<product> table") and then shows the result (here,
-presumably, a description of item C<12> in your product
-database)), and how it works (by MVC, a design paradigm in
+Maypole is a framework for Web development. At the basic level, it
+converts a URL like C<http://www.mysite.com/product/display/12> into a
+method call such as "perform the C<display> method on item C<12> in the
+C<product> table" and then shows the result: here, presumably, a
+description of item C<12> in your product database,
+
+It is based on Model-View-Controller (MVC), a design paradigm in