What technologies for web page?

[IHateMyJob2004]

I have some simple requirements.

I need to have peopel fill out a form and on submit, I get the form e-mailed to me.

The other need is for easy navigation and nice grpahics. I almost want an image that take up the whole page with text over hte top of it. I'm not sure how iframes and frames would be used. So what tech shoudl I read up on?

Examples coming of look I am going for.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

This is pretty close in concept in terms of look and feel:
http://corporate.troweprice.com/ccw/home.do

What technolgies are needed to do a layout like this?

 

[aceO07]

Looks like it's CSS and javascript.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I'm too lazy to "view source" but it's probably just CSS / DHTML / JavaScript.

For the form you probably want a PHP script to process it. If you're concerned about bot spam check this out:
http://recaptcha.net/plugins/php/

 

[Ka0t1x]

That's a pretty simple PHP job. +1 for Captcha, otherwise your inbox will get nuked.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Awesome. Hopefully I'll get going on my project soon. thankS!

 

[Aluvus]

Look into CSS's "background-image" property.

 

[Cogman]

I would say go with CSS (for the looks) and something along the lines of PHP/ruby/ect. I wouldn't use javascript for mailing simply because it is client side (harder to control, easier for someone to get unintended actions)