How do I get the submit button to send the form to an email address. Where do we find such basic questons for novices?

When you click the submit button the details in the form are sent to the server using either a GET or POST; when they arrive there has to be a script that processes the information and assembles it into an email then sends it.

There are lots of ways of doing that, Formmail is one, it takes the input and checks it then sends it off, but the formatting it rather basic.

Forms to go, will take your form, produce a php script that does checking on the inputs and then directs the user to success or fail pages

You can also write your own processing to get just what you want.

Try a search for something like . . . script form email - that should do it, or check out formmail and formstogo

w3schools.com is a great place to start learning the basics