Dreamweaver and html form issues! ack!

[FirstLight]

okay, i am more of a 'designer' than a code person, so please try and bear with me...

trying to add a form to an html page
does it actually have to be a PHP to work?
want to send the data straight to an email, no database
what the heck does GET/POST mean?

i am so lost!
I took a college class a few years ago with Dreamweaver 8 and we did a from, but i don;t think we ever got to
the actual 'testing' of it...just putting the elements on the page

does it have to be so hard?

[2Design]

1. form you probably made did not work in a REAL system - they have to

be connected to a backend and have a cgi script or perhaps a php function to pull the data and pass it
No I have not set one up
search on html form processing

Get means it gets the data from the url address and seen by everyone
Post means it pushes the data unseen

[FirstLight]

2. thanks ...i am also checking with the host

to see if they have any guidelines or help abour this too