I've got the task to change all the small CGIs to have a logo on top of the site. To edit all that scripts is against Laziness, so i thought about a different approach - using frames. I build this small and simple wrapper. If it is called with a parameter 'app' it outputs the right CGI as part of a frameset and the browser does the job. In fact this just works 'cause all CGIs are called from only one page.
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw ( fatalsToBrowser );
use HTML::Template;

my $q = new CGI;
my $app = $q->param('app') || 'help';

my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'app_wrap.tmpl');

my $application_to_call = '/main.html';
$application_to_call = '/cgi-bin/staff.pl'     if ($app eq 'staff');
$application_to_call = '/db/staff/selstad.pl'     if ($app eq 'adm_sta
+ff');
$application_to_call = '/db/staff/birthday.pl'     if ($app eq 'birthd
+ay');
$application_to_call = '/db/staff/firmenjub.pl' if ($app eq 'jubilee')
+;
$application_to_call = '/db/staff/location.pl'     if ($app eq 'locati
+on');

print $q->header();
$template->param(app => $application_to_call);
print $template->output();
exit;

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and a html-template snippet: 
<!-- snip -->
<frameset frameborder="no" framespacing="0" border="0" rows="80,*">
   <frame marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" src="/logo_t
+op.html">
   <frame name="main" src="<TMPL_VAR NAME="app">">
</frameset>
<!-- snip -->

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