Your post sounds like "Hi, I'm new here -- and by the way, your site looks like crap, and you've written the code wrong." Also, I'm curious to know how can you tell that MVC and Templates aren't being used on the site already.

Anyway, you've got folks attention .. as has been pointed out, you can specify your own CSS to change the way the site looks, and if you're interested in working on the site code, you can contact the pmdev group about that. However, my understanding is that it takes a while to get into that group, and you have to first demonstrate that you have some Perl chops.

This is a close-knit community -- so don't expect to fly in and immediately start changing the site. Some of us have been here a while, and like the site just the way it is. It's not gorgeous or flashy, but it's most useful, as well as being an excellent little corner of the Internet.

smells trollish if you ask me.

Nothing easier than creating a new account and claiming to be a misunderstood newbie.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}

PS: this site indeed looks 90s ...

I could not find any of them

Super search. Enjoy.

I have already seen the Super Search


 Found 50 nodes roughly between 1999-10-04 and 2000-08-10 (searched 2.
+23% of DB).
where any text contains "design"
Press to continue searching remaining 97.77% of DB.
Link to preload this search: [href://?node_id=3989;BIT=design;submit=S
+earch;D]
[download]

Found 50 nodes roughly between 2000-08-10 and 2000-04-22 (searched 1.5
+2% of DB).
where any text contains "theme"
Press to continue searching remaining 0.70% of DB.
Please be patient after submitting your search.
Link to preload this search: [href://?node_id=3989;BIT=theme;D]
[download]

That way I got already tired before I found anything suitable.
which would be in technical terms:


• not User friendly
• not Google friendly

The nice way about Tags and Categories is that on the currently reading Posts it suggests you the right terms to read further
And on the Backend Side it leds you display related Posts.


• for further reading for the User
• for further crawling for Google

Maybe try the search given to you? Its more clever than your search. ?node_id=3989;HIT=Theme;re=N;D

Another example for a Search I did.
https://perlmonks.org/?node=template+toolkit


Found 50 nodes roughly between 2018-09-27 and 2016-09-23 (searched 4.15% of DB).
where title contains all of "template", "toolkit"
Pressto continue searching remaining 95.85% of DB.
Please be patient after submitting your search.
Link to preload this search: ?node_id=3989;HIT=template%20toolkit

The Result is filled up with one Thread mostly.


But I can't find any answer to my concrete Question
Do you use the Template::Toolkit on here ?


This is an Example what Perl still can do on the Web nowadays:
http://template-toolkit.org/index.html

As for the buzzwords I think you're barking up the wrong tree:

www.workingsoftware.com.au/page/Your_templating_engine_sucks_and_every
+thing_you_have_ever_written_is_spaghetti_code_yes_you
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