-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