$db->do( 'CREATE TABLE counters   (pagename text primary key, pagecounter int default 0)' );

eval {
   $db->do('INSERT INTO counters (pagename, pagecounter) VALUES ($, 0)',        undef, $pagename);
};

$db->do('UPDATE counters SET pagecounter = pagecounter + 1 WHERE pagename = ?', undef, $pagename);

##</code><code>##

print table( {class=>'info'},
        Tr( td( {class=>'lime'},    a( {href=>'/cgi-bin/show.pl?name=showlog'},  h1( {class=>'lime'}, $host )))),
        Tr( td( {class=>'yellow'},  $display_date)),
        Tr( td( {class=>'cyan'},    $pagecounter ))
);