This is how I do it. I have also made Horizontal Rules this way by adding <td bgcolor="#666666" height="1"
Wufoo.com is also a decent form builder product.
I like Contact Form 7 pluggin for WP. The form builder is pretty simple and they also have a Contact Form 7 DB which collects data and exports well.
Have you considered a WP site? Self hosted on a subdomain.
My philosophy has always been: Code for Outlook and IE and all other things will fall into place.
O, and, business owners/sales guys/marketers/"those who approve" always know better, don't they?
Started a new discussion: Encryption affecting deliverablity
Email to potential investors: Font color was set to #333333 background-color was set to #333333. Yeah, I didn't see anything either. needless to say had to resend with font-color #ffffff
I am temped to try it to see what the final render is. Meaning where do things fall in the design once the CSS poperties are removed. If done right you may find that it render almost the same way a responsive result would render.