Even your HTML needs some work, a mix of css classes and inline styles

The snippet of HTML you refer to was written some 6 years ago, as was mentioned in the post...
Whilst I cannot say I never add an inline style declaration to an existing class, it is very very rare these days.

seemingly been dismissed without proper evaluation

In less than 5 weeks of being here I have adopted strict, got rid of require *.pl; in favour of use *.pm; usage, adopted use FindBin; and use lib; which I previously knew existed but were shielded away in a cloak of mystery, plus numerous other improvements. Not to mention all the stuff I have taken on board about the *nix environment thanks to working with a Raspberry Pi. Change has to be paced!

Templating certainly has not been dismissed...
I do get the feeling that Mojolicious may be a step too far as it has the potential to break existing code. I am tending towards Template as a more universal solution that can be incrementally adopted.

Templating is being evaluated as described in Templating system choice

In reply to Re^8: Here documents in blocks (why templates) by Bod
in thread Here documents in blocks by Bod

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