Q:

cannot configure solspace email

I am desperately trying to make my Freeform (free version) to confirm to my HTML of my site. Here is the mess I have now so you see what I mean:
<!-- Contact Form -->

        <form class="contact-form row" method="post">

            <div class="col-md-6 col-sm-6 form-group">
                <input type="text" id="input_name" name="contact-name" class="form-control" placeholder="Name*" required/>
            </div>
            <div class="col-md-6 col-sm-6 form-group">
                <input type="email" id="input_email" name="contact-email" class="form-control" placeholder="Email*" required/>
            </div>
            <div class="col-md-12 col-sm-12 form-group">
                <input type="text" id="input_phone" name="contact-phone" class="form-control" placeholder="Telephone"/>
            </div>
            <div class="col-md-12 col-sm-12">
                <textarea placeholder="Comments" id="textarea_message" name="contact-message" rows="6"></textarea>
            </div>

            <input type="submit" id="btn_submit" formaction="mail:info@mannachurch.org" class="btn btn-default" value="send"/>

            <div id="alert-msg" class="alert-msg"></div>

            {exp:freeform:form
                        form_id="1"
                        required="name|email"
                        recipient1="Manna Church|info@mannachurch.org"
                        recipient_template="contact_form"
                        notify_user="yes"
                        user_email_field="user_email"
                    }

                        <p><label>Choose Recipients</label><br/>
                            <select name="recipient_email" />
                                {freeform:recipients}
                                <option value="{freeform:recipient_value}">
                                    {freeform:recipient_name}
                                </option>
                                {/freeform:recipients}
                            </select></p>

                        <p>
                            <label>{freeform:label:name}</label>
                            {freeform:field:name}
                        </p>
                        <p>
                            <label>{freeform:label:email}</label>
                            {freeform:field:email}
                        </p>

                        <p>
                            <label>{freeform:label:subject}</label>
                            {freeform:field:subject}
                        </p>

                        {if freeform:captcha}
                            <p>Please enter the word you see in the image below:</p>
                            <p>{freeform:captcha}<br />
                            <input type="text" name="captcha" style="width:140px;" /></p>
                        {/if}

                        <p>{freeform:submit}</p>

                    {/exp:freeform:form}

        </form><!-- Contact Form /- -->

Go to http://www.reachoutcelebration.com and scroll to the bottom to see what I mean. What am I doing wrong? EE newb desperately looking for help, let me know if this code is too much or not clear enough.

A:

The {exp:freeform form} will create the form tags for you. Once inside you aren't required to use the {freeform:field:xxx} tag, you can just use the typical input syntax. I'll include some code below for reference. 
                {exp:freeform:form
                form_id="1"
                inline_errors="yes"
                required="name|email"
                return="/thank-you"
            }
                    <span>* = Required</span>
                    <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name*">
                    {if freeform:error:name}<strong class="error">{freeform:error:name}</strong>{/if}

                    <input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Email*">
                    {if freeform:error:email}<strong class="error">{freeform:error:email}</strong>{/if}

                    <textarea name="user_message" placeholder="Questions/Comments"></textarea>

                    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">

            {/exp:freeform:form}

