It was really just a quick way of dumping a mixture of "plain" html and HTML::Template fodder into the same place as the cgi scripts for testing. It's actually in a Windows Apache context so the executable flag's not an issue, but I wanted to keep the files together to make it a little easier to manage them with Subversion during the prototyping phase.

I imagine these files are going to get a lot of hacking while I argue over site layout with the person who wants the work done.

And of course you can factor almost complete ignorance of CGI, Apache and HTML/HTML::Template into all of that too - I've been writing CGI script and running an Apache server for testing for a few weeks.

More clever at the XP game maybe - but I'm not sure that counts for a huge amount. Sure can't convert XP to cash. :-D