Newbie to any web-site development - Creating a form?

rustyrpage...

if you are going to put these forms out on the WEB, you need to think about who is going to be using them.  You will probably find that many people may not have Outlook or Word installed on their machine.  That being said, the solution you proposed is not a very commonly used one.  

I would encourage you to just use basic html forms with php.  here's an example on how you would create a very simple script that would do what you are talking about:

create a html document (let's say form.html):

<form method="post" action="sendemail.php">
your name:  <input type="text" name="personName"><br>
your message:  <textarea name="message"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="send email">
</form>

create a php document (text document), and name it sendemail.php:

<?
$recipientEmail = "your@emailaddress.com";
$message = "You received an email from ".$_POST["personName"]."!  The message is below:\r\n\r\n".$_POST["message"];

mail($recipientEmail,"Here's My Subject Line",$message);
?>

that is the most basic way of doing this i could think of... and if you are just getting started in web development, PHP is a good language to start out with.  The code i wrote for you today does require that you have a basic installation of php and a mail server of some sort.  you can get php from http://php.net it is free.

let me know if that works out for you.

-Chris

Although I too would recommend PHP, it can also be done with ASP & CDONTS (if it's running IIS).  You create an HTML form and then add a little coding to send the form elements via an email.  Of course the web server has to have SMTP mail enabled on it.  An example of the CDONTS coding can be found at:

http://www.powerasp.com/content/hintstips/asp-email.asp

rustyrpage,

if that is what you are thinking of doing, that isn't really web development per se, the easiest way i would think to do this would be to have a link to download the forms in the way of a word document.  that document could contain form elements, and once the user has finished filling out the form, they can click the "email" icon next to the "save" icon and type in the email address.  

you could list these instructions on your web page.  along with a list of supervisors to send the form to.  

as for doing all of this in word or outlook?  i think it is possible, but you aren't speaking in the realm of web development any more, but rather the land of VBS and Macros.  Something i know little about.  You might want to ask this question in the apps > MS office category.  

honestly, if you're ok with not having the "pull down list of supervisors" just use the example i mentioned in this post and you be fine.

-Chris

oops, did i say VBS?  i meant VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) not VBS (Visual Basic Script) sorry.  :D

-Chris

Hi,

  check out the tutorials/examples at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com

  There should be a number of articles, etc. there that will provide you with more than a running start.

Vinny