I need to put a contact form on a real estate website, and I'm looking for information on how to set it up. I'm fairly new to web design, although I feel like I understand the basics of HTML and CSS; I don't know anything about Javascript or PHP, etc., but I'm not averse to learning them is that's what it'll take to create a good looking form. Really just looking for resources right now (besides Lynda.com, which I already have a subscription to and doesn't have that much information about forms anyway).

Have you looked at this? http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

JavaScript and PHP don't have anything to do with how forms look, but you will need some sort of server side language to receive a response from the form, then send mail, if what you need is a contact form.