When my form loads it prints "Please enter your name". That happens before I even press the submit button. And when I press the button, it doesn't do anything because it thinks the name is missing.

Can someone see why? 

    my $name    = param('name');
    my $email   = param('email');
    my $url     = param('url');
    my $message = param('message');
    my $reply   = param('reply');

print header, start_html('Contact the webmaster');

if (param('Submit'))
{
  if($name)
  {
    if($email)
    {
      if($message)
      {

                open (MAIL, "|$sendmail -t") or die "Cannot access mai
+l";
                print MAIL "To: $adminmail\n";
                print MAIL "From: $email\n";
                print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n";
                print MAIL "Who: $name\n";
                print MAIL "Where: $email\n";
                print MAIL "Message: $message\n";
                print MAIL "Reply: $reply\n";
                close(MAIL) or die "Cannot close sendmail $!";

         print <<"ALL";
         <table width="369" border="0">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2">You sent the following message: </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
    <td width="75">Name:</td>
    <td width="278">$name</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
    <td>Email:</td>
    <td>$email</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
    <td>URL:</td>
    <td>$url</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
    <td>Message:</td>
    <td>$message</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
    <td>Reply:</td>

ALL

if($reply) {
   print "<td>yes</td>";
  } else {
    print "<td></td>";
   }
print "</tr></table>";


exit;
      }
      else
      {
        print "<font color=red>Please fill in a message.</font>\n";
      }}
    } else
    {
        print "<font color=red>Please fill in your email address.</fon
+t>\n";
    } 
  } else
  {
     print "<font color=red>Please fill in your name.</font>\n"; 
  }



print <<"ALL";

<table width="469" border="1" align="center"><form method="POST" actio
+n="">
  <tr>
    <td><p>Thank you for visiting my site. If for any reason you want 
+to contact me, whether it be for site bugs, custom work or just a &qu
+ot;Hey, you!&quot;, please feel free to contact me. </p>
    <p>If you request a reply, expect it within the next 12-24 hours. 
+</p></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">Name:    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><input name="name" type="text" id="name"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">Email:</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><input name="email" type="text" id="email"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">URL:</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><input name="url" type="text" id="url"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">Message:</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><textarea name="message" cols="40" rows="5" id="message"></tex
+tarea></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><input name="reply" type="checkbox" id="reply" value="checkbox
+">
Do you want a reply? (checked = yes) </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><div align="center">
      <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
    </div></td>
  </tr>
</form></table>

ALL

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