Making a Success/Error message appear after sent mail

Making a Success/Error message appear after sent mail

So I have spent the past week (about 10 hours in total) looking for a way to make a jQuery message appear without a reload after someone send me a message using my contact me form.
Yet all the tutorials I have read (20-30) have included a success/error message but also have many other messages. Since im a beginer to jQuery I have no idea which is which and how to cut out what I wan't.

So I was wondering if somone hear could tell me how I could accomplish this using jquery-1.2.6.min.js

Here is the code I'm using...

PHP:
<?php

   $emailsubject = 'Contact';
   $webMaster = 'my@email.com';

   $nameField = $_POST ['name'];
   $emailField = $_POST ['email'];
   $messageField = $_POST ['message'];

   $body = <<<EOD
<br><hr><br>
Name: $nameField <br>
Email: $emailField <br><hr><br>
Message: $messageField <br>
<br><hr><br>
EOD;

   $headers = "From: $emailField\r\n";
   $headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
   $success = mail($webMaster, $emailsubject, $body, $headers);

   if (mail($webMaster, $emailsubject, $body, $headers) ) {
       echo "email sent!";
    } else {
       echo "Please try agian.";
    }

?>



And my HTML:
<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
<span id="textfield1">
    <label for="name">FIrst Name: </label>
    <input type="text" name="name" id="name">
</span>

<br><br>
<span id="textfield2">
    <label for="email">Email: </label>
    <input type="text" name="email" id="email">
</span>
   
<br><br>
<span id="textarea1">
<label for="message">Message: </label>
    <textarea name="message" id="message" cols="45" rows="5"></textarea>
</span>

<br><br>
<input type="submit" name="send" id="contactsend" value="Submit">
</form>



Any help would be wonderfull!