Any ideas how I should go about approaching this?

:) Yeah, for a quick-start try Titanium/titanium-starter . See Re^2: CGI layout and try mojo/dancer/catalyst, and then compare.

To learn about MVC visit Re^2: mod_perl website structure, and think where the above skeletons fit in the scheme of MVC

Then see how CGI::Application has been actually used on CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/CGI::Application::Tutorial::Namegame

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/CGI::Application::Demo::Basic

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/App::Office::CMS

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Smoulder

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/CPAN::Forum / http://cpanforum.com/

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Miril / http://www.mechanicalrevolution.com/topic/miril.html

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Rubric / http://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/~rjbs

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Web::Passwd

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Unamerican::Truth