Great advice, but i have a couple of nitpicks:

I start off with Dreamweaver ... but i don't maintain with Dreamweaver. Big difference. The advantage here has nothing to do with how much knowledge of HTML i have, but instead how much drudgery i don't want to type myself. Making a table is so much easier with the mouse, and the resulting HTML can always be filtered through HTML Tidy if i don't like it.

You forgot to mention a third way: seperate your Perl code from the HTML. This is where HTML::Template and Template rule. I no longer use those gruffy looking HERE docs for HTML.

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)