Yeah, I think I should have specified why my worry about webhosting providers. You see, many of our customers already come to us with a webhost that they have used in the past and are happy with. Its my company's policy not to vouch for other company's services, so we tend not to try and push them away from a service that they are already happy with.

In some cases (our larger, corporate) clients own their own servers, but then its likely that I'll have to get it through to the thick-skulled-dinosaur-it-manager that compiling DBD::Oracle requires that you have at least Oracle client installed on his HP-UX (get the drift?).

Bottom line is that unfortunately I am not always able to choose out of a vast quantity of hosting options, and that's why I got stuck with my MakeHTML($template,%HASH) solution. :o/

Thank you for the great advice on HTML::Template, I've skimmed through and seems to be exactly what I was in need for! (and my most common webhost, HWay, has it in their module list)

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