Plain HTML Can Collect Form Info

Cheap Hosting Means No CGI

[swoop]

I have a static website hosted at a dirt-cheap hosting company, and wonder if I can have a user-completed form there. HTML can do a simple mailto, but I need the email to contain answers to three or four questions. Can plain HTML do that, or do I need to upgrade to their plan that permits cgi?

The form is on a page inviting link exchanges, so it asks for the title, description and URL of the website seeking to link with mine.

Here is a description of the hosting plan: Static series can only serve html pages, images and other static content(avi, doc, zip, etc.). It does not come with any fancy features but massive amount of data transfer at extremely low cost, ideal for hosting plain html websites or image files for hotlinking.

Thank you.

[tedster]

Plain HTML is limited to mailto, with all that that means about goofy formatting, user unfriendliness, and so on. If you want to stay with your "dirt cheap" plan there are some free cgi hosting services - easy to find on many search engines. These services only host your script, nothing else.

I never used this approach, but it might be worth a trial - the services seem to be pretty widespread.

[Staffa]

Have a Google around for sites that host free scripts for your site.
I can't remember of the top of my head but there are some where you add their form to your site and they send you the content to your email address.