DID NOT MEAN TO REPOST....just went back in my browser window....understand the novice thing now?
ok so I am an utter novice at this....please dont mock me! 
ok so here it is, I used the steps of this site to create a form that will send a users email address to my email account so I can start to accrue them and send out newsletters...
here's the code I used:
<FORM METHOD="POST"target="mailto:alexander@xxxxxxxx.com"><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="emailaddress" SIZE="20"><INPUT TYPE="submit"></FORM>
just as instructedhttp://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/forms/article.php/3479121.
When I tested it out and entered my email address into the field and hit the submit button, my email application opened up....this is not what I want.
I just want a simple text field that a user can submit his/her email address to my email account. Can you please help.
Thanks in advance.