I am working to set up a form on my site. I usually just set the form to submit the info as an e-mail to my account. However, it has come to my attention that this makes it impossible for people to complete the form if they are using a computer that does not have a default e-mail account set up on it. I know that there are other ways to set the form, like CGI, but I don't know how to do any of these. Could some one please help me out? Giving me a template and some basic instructions on how to custimize it to work with my form would be great. Thanks.

You really need a server side language to process forms.
If your server supports php you could use the attached mailer script by Ryan Brill of Infinity Web Design.

You then just set your form action to be the name of the php mail script file, and set the method to post.