Hagbone, great question and welcome to HTML::Template. In answer to your question, in our shop we keep all *.tmpl files in a directory off the root directory. We only have two designers and they know what they are doing, so protecting the files from harm is not a huge concern. I still maintain the Perl in the cgi-bin.

My biggest learning mistake with H::T was not knowing and taking advantage of all its features. Be sure to read the CPAN docs thoroughly, and memorize jeffa's terrific tutorial, especially the "Bag of Tricks" section (also see Ovid's and gav^'s) The key to planning your workflow is knowing all that H::T can do.

I also replied to a larger thread, all of which you should take a look at (kiat had a lot of posts on this topic back in December, so check his posts).

In any case, your designer's will love you.

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