diff --git a/main.scm b/main.scm
index e03da82..b65b899 100644
--- a/main.scm
+++ b/main.scm
@@ -52,24 +52,23 @@
 (define DESCRIPTION   (or (get-environment-variable "GIT_WWW_DESCRIPTION") "my git repositories"))
 (define H1            (or (get-environment-variable "GIT_WWW_H1") "git.example.com"))
 
-
-(define HTML-TEMPLATE
-  #<<string-block
+(define (populate-html-template body)
+  #<#string-block
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html lang="en">
 <head>
-<title>{{title}}</title>
+<title>#{TITLE}</title>
 <meta charset="utf-8" />
 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes" />
 <link rel="icon" href="data:,">
-<meta name="description" content="{{description}}"/>
+<meta name="description" content="#{DESCRIPTION}"/>
 <style>
 body {
   margin: 0 auto;
   max-width: 700px;
 }
 pre {
-  background-color: #ffd9df;
+  background-color: ##ffd9df;
   padding: 15px 20px;
   white-space: pre;
   overflow: scroll;
@@ -81,21 +80,21 @@ hr {
   border-bottom: 1px solid black;
   margin-top: 16px;
 }
-#file-path {
+##file-path {
   /* change this to your liking */
 }
 </style>
 </head>
 <body>
-<h1>{{h1}}</h1>
-<h2>{{repository-name}}</h2>
-<p>clone url: {{clone-url}}/{{repository-name}}</p>
+<h1>#{H1}</h1>
+<h2>#{*repository-name*}</h2>
+<p>clone url: #{CLONE-URL}/#{*repository-name*}</p>
 <nav>
-<a href="/{{repository-name}}/index.html">about</a>
-<a href="/{{repository-name}}/files.html">files</a>
+<a href="/#{*repository-name*}/index.html">about</a>
+<a href="/#{*repository-name*}/files.html">files</a>
 </nav>
 <hr>
-{{body-contents}}
+#{body}
 </body>
 </html>
 string-block
@@ -104,17 +103,6 @@ string-block
 (define (write-file file contents)
   (with-output-to-file file (lambda () (display contents))))
 
-(define (populate-html-template body-contents)
-  (string-translate*
-    HTML-TEMPLATE
-    `(
-      ("{{title}}"           . ,TITLE)
-      ("{{description}}"     . ,DESCRIPTION)
-      ("{{h1}}"              . ,H1)
-      ("{{clone-url}}"       . ,CLONE-URL)
-      ("{{repository-name}}" . ,*repository-name*)
-      ("{{body-contents}}"   . ,body-contents))))
-
 (define (in-git-directory?)
   (if (equal? (call-with-input-pipe "git rev-parse --is-bare-repository 2> /dev/null" read-line) "true")
     #t
