CGI.pm can make some aspects producing HTML easier. I would suggest that you set $XHTML = 1; so that you get xhtml compliant html out. I would also suggest using CGI::Pretty for more readable markup. I have started to use HTML::Template to help abstract the program from the presentation. This way you can make one template and reuse it and someone else can do your page creation. Also using HTML::Template you can avoid CGI.pm for most of your html markup and you can control exactly how you format and indent the code.