If you are starting out in cgi, don't overlook "here docs" for printing out html manually from a cgi script. They are very handy, because they allow you to output html just as you would statically write it, and embed variables into it. As an example, this will output code for a javascript popup 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use strict;

print header();

print <<HERE;
<html>
<head>
<title>test of javascript</title>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--  Begin
function launchwin()
{
window.open("../jspopup.html", "dialog", "width=300, height=250, scrol
+lbars=yes, resizable=yes");
}
// End -->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<form>
<input type=button value="Click here to try the JavaScript!"
onClick="launchwin()">
</form>
</center>
</body>
</html>
HERE

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and here is a simple thank you page 
print <<END_HTML;
Content-type: text/html
 
<HTML>
<HEAD> <TITLE>Thanks!</TITLE> </HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#ffffff"><br>
<P>Thanks for visiting our site : $username!</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
END_HTML

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In reply to Re: PERL and HTML by zentara
in thread PERL and HTML by vashbrowns

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