Newbie question re: forms

[apuffer]

Hi all, I'm a bit of a newbie but am eager to learn. I am designing a website for a friend, and have come to the point where I need a form to gather information and upon submitting it, the information should be sent to an email address. I am using dreamweaver 8 to design, and have limited experience in coding (understand the concepts behind Java, HTML, C++ but forget how to code). Can someone please explain to me how to process this form information to an email addy? I am really stuck on this! Can it be done through dreamweaver without having to do any coding? If not, could someone direct me on where to get started in coding this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Wickham]

I'm not a Dreamweaver user but I'm sure it's be possible to add code.

See
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/forms/article.php/3479121
and
http://www.wickham43.supanet.com/tutorial/forms.html
for form basics.

Remember that using a mailto link to an email address will probably attract computer-generated spam, so "mung" the address with javascript. See
http://www.wickham43.supanet.com/tutorial/generaladvice.html#emailaddresses "Email addresses on the web" near the bottom.

The information in the email is in a form that is difficult to read so the next stage is to send the info to a database where it is processed, but this is more difficult. Do the simple form first.

I expect that Dreamweaver has form coding somewhere, you may not have found it.