Stripboards are exellent for prototyping when you know that your circuit works and want it to be a little more permanent. Even though you might just want to jump into the soldering process, a good advice is to plan out how you want the layout to be. Otherwise you might end up with a lot of 'hovsa' (danish) solutions.

This little program helps you some of the way: DIY Layout Creator It is free, and in java, so everybody should have a chance of running it.