I was up late last night reading Perl for Dummies that I picked up at the library. I think I have a better idea now of how to get started making a more interactive web site. Right now I would be able to have a user fill in one or several fields on a web page, click a button, and then have a program on the server run using those values, and then return program output to the user's screen. The cool thing about that is that the server is doing all of the hard computing, and then just passes the results back to the user's screen.

My goal is to get the server side program to be able to read and write to a database on the server.