What is the best way to create a web page form for gathering info and sending it to my email.
What do I search for at Google?
Can I do it with just html and css? E.g., no .php.
AFAIK, the only thing you can do with HTML alone is have the URL be a mailto so that the users default email app will open with certain fields filled out with the form values.
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HTML & CSS can make the form itself, but you will need server-side processing to process the data and mail it after submission.
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Try search for “formmail script”. 
Here is the Wikipedia article for the original formmail script:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FormMail
Agree to what @SamA74 say, check your host’s support pages what forms they recommend for sending mails from your site. If they offer that service, the support pages has the info.
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Great answers! Really helpful!
Reminds me of California! “There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say: Welcome to the Hotel California.”
I will look in my ftp pages, then ask hosting support first.
I just need to collect url and title after a user buys an ad [at PayPal].
I do not like the idea of relying on YouTube to give me the url and title when they pay.
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