I ended up using HTML::Template in a project at work, but I had to actually create a template as well. A filty, dirty, ugly, invalid template with nasty font tags and tables for layout. While I did managed to match the look of the site (and only had 4 lines of HTML in the code) it felt like quite a step backwards… I’m so used to writing XHTML and CSS that going back to the old methods actually hurt my brain a bit. Not to mention the fact that it was a mess to deal with. Please people, make the move to clean, structural markup using XHTML and CSS. You won’t be sorry…

(Note to self: Remember to set die_on_bad_params = 0)