in reply to Can CGI.PM do hyperlinks

yes.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use CGI qw/:standard/; print p( "Return to our", a( { -href => 'fred.html' }, "home page" ), "." );

but I think you'll find a large number of monks that abstain from using the HTML generation portion of CGI in favor of a templating system.

-derby