pramodsite-1.0
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May 19, 2004

This package is a collection of Perl scripts that I use for my website (http://www.geocities.com/pramodbiligiri). The scripts generate (not-so-valid) XHTML, using HTML and CSS. They do not use the CGI mechanism.

The following Perl Modules (which are not part of the standard distribution) are required:
Date::Manip, XML::XPath and XML::RSS.
You can find them from www.cpan.org

The website has three main parts:
1) The basic template for the website
This is provided by suitable functions in template_fns.pl, for features like the header and colours which are common to all pages in the site.

2) Blog
The blog entries are stored in an XML file (entries.xml). blog.pl creates a blog page using only the specified entries. The comments make use of a free hosting facility by HaloScan. They require JavaScript support in the browser.
blog.pl also generates an RSS feed using genrss.pl.
The archives.pl script generates a similar file..but with *all* the entries in the XML file.

3) The Rest
This includes the index page, projects page..so on. Each page is generated by a corresponding .pl file

COMPILE
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To compile, run Make. And start browsing from index.html!
Note: I have commented the guestbook, and archive_category in the Makefile..you can turn it on if you want.

AUTHOR
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My name is Pramod Biligiri. I'm a student of Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore, India. I'm on the verge of finishing my four year course.

LICENSE
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I've released the scripts under the GPL license.