Hello,

New person here :)

I've been doing web design for a while now, but have never been asked to create a form until now. We have an old form that has been used on one of our sites for years that a previous employee created. The person who created it had very little web design experience, and I know for a fact that he knew nothing about cgi programming, and yet his form still works to this day.

I never would have imagined that building a simple form and having the results sent to an email address would be such a complicated matter. Am i missing something here? Do i really need to learn cgi programming in order to do such a thing? Or have to have it sent through some type of service for $19 a month (such as is described here: http://www.response-o-matic.com/ )?

My real confusion stems from the fact that this form works:

http://www.electrosales.net/dealer_a...pplication.htm

It is a very basic form put together by someone who had little web design experience (but who is no longer around to ask how he did it), yet which works on its own without haveing to send it out to some "response-o-matic" type of service

Again, am I missing something???

Thank you much!