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@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ L<Maypole::Application> to set up your app (not recommended for newbies, but
 common enough), the driver class will directly inherit from one of Maypole's 
 frontend classes. 
 
+=item controller
+
+Occasionally this term is used in place of C<driver>.
+
+See the entry below (MVC) for the main usage of the term C<controller> within 
+Maypole. 
+
 =item application
 
 Sometimes this is used to refer to the driver, but this term is best reserved 
@@ -88,8 +95,12 @@ A file used to generate HTML for part or all of a web page. Maypole currently
 supports Template Toolkit and Mason as templating languages, but others could 
 be added easily.
 
+=back
+
 =head2 MVC and Maypole
 
+=over 4
+
 =item MVC - Model-View-Controller
 
 A pattern describing separation of concerns in a complex application. The 
@@ -100,21 +111,22 @@ Opinions vary between how closely Maypole adheres to this pattern.
 
 Here's one opinion:
 
-=over 4
-
 =item controller
 
 An abstract concept in Maypole, i.e. there is no specific controller class. 
 
-The main sequence of events that occur during the processing of a request is 
-controlled by methods in L<Maypole>. Thus, major parts of the controller are in 
-the same class as the request object. This may seem a bit strange, but in 
+The main sequence of events that occur during the processing of a request is
+controlled by methods in C<Maypole.pm>. Thus, major parts of the controller are
+in the same class as the request object. This may seem a bit strange, but in
 practice it works well.
 
 More detailed events within the processing of a request are actually handled by 
 methods in the Maypole 'model'. For instance, switching from one template to 
 another. 
 
+Be aware that occasionally authors refer to the C<controller> when they are
+describing the C<driver>.
+
 =item model
 
 In Maypole, the model is the set of classes representing individual tables in