help re: exporting html form data to database

[fundean]

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

[penagate]

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.

[fundean]

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

[penagate]

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