++skazat, nicely written piece.

I also have found the Template Toolkit to be a fantastically useful tool and I've barely scratched the surface of its capabilities. I haven't really used DreamWeaver much but I have built templates which people to maintain using FrontPage. When I create my template in Perl I use:

my $template = Template->new({
  INCLUDE_PATH => '/some/path',
  START_TAG    => '<%',
  END_TAG      => '%>',
});
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Which means that the templating tags look like ASP to FrontPage - I haven't had any trouble with things getting messed with so far.