Many thanks to all who have contributed to this quest.

From this and other conversations I believe the steps are:
1. choose a 'tool' to create the web site - one Perl based is an MVC toolkit but there a number of other options including Java;
2. check that the chosen tool can do what I want;
3. check that the tool is supported in the user's server;
4. decide which browsers are to be supported.

However perhaps step 3 is done first or at least with step 1 so that time for step 2 is not wasted.

One interesting thing is that I do not think any contributing Monk suggested an MVC toolkit, I just wondered why. I have not looked at its capabilities yet so perhaps there is something there which is a showstopper!

In reply to Re^7: formatting with </br> by merrymonk
in thread Converting Tk based Perl to be used on the Interent by merrymonk

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