help re: exporting html form data to database

Hello All,

I am new to web design and wonder if this is the right forum for my question: I would like to take data entered in an online html form and automatically export it to a simple database online. For example, if the person enters their name, address, and zip on a simple html form designed in a web-editing program (like dreamweaver), I would then like to have the data automatically appear as a new record in an excel file.
What is the simplest way of doing this? Sorry if the question is too long, simplistic, or nonsequiter to this forum.

TIA,

fundean

Your question's fine.

Making a HTML form is simple. All a form does is tell the user agent (the browser) where to send the inputted data.

To do anything useful with that data, you must have some form of server-side scripting, such as PHP; ASP; Perl; etc. Do you have any such tools available? If not, could you provide some details about your server.

it is geocities.com; don't know much more than that

In that case you are out of luck as Geocities does not support server-side scripting.