LOCAL WEB vs. INTERNET WEB

Disk-based web
This is when you use the FrontPage editor to create web pages and save these pages to a file/folder on your hard drive. (For example: C:\myweb\homepage.htm).  This is similar to the way you would save other types of documents on your computer, such as using Microsoft Word to write a letter and saving a copy of your finished letter as C:\MyDocuments\letter.doc.

FrontPage Server-based web
This is when you use the FrontPage Explorer program to create a web on your computer.  This "web" contains all of the web pages you create using FrontPage Editor.  Whenever you work with your web pages you first open your web by launching FrontPage Explorer, clicking FILE->OPEN WEB and choosing the web on your machine that you would like to work with. Then you can create new pages and save them to this web.

Creating a "web" on your local machine using FrontPage Explorer
In FrontPage Explorer click FILE -> NEW -> WEB and follow the subsequent prompts.  Once you have a web created on your machine you will want to open this web open to create or edit the web pages you have stored in it.  You will want to avoid saving your web pages directly to a directory on your hard drive. Instead, save your web pages in your "web"   Managing and saving your pages within the context of a "web" keeps your links intact.

Broken links, feedback forms or FrontPage components
If you created a link to an image (a feedback form or other FrontPage component) in a "disk-based" web your link or form might not function when uploaded to your web site.  If you have saved your web page directly to a folder on your hard drive, a link you have created to an image might look like this in the .html code of your web page:

c:\myweb\images\flower.gif

If you created the link to the image and saved the web page to your "FrontPage web" on your local computer, the link might look like this: http://mylocalweb/images/flower.gif

or it could look like this:  ../images/flower.gif (this is called a "relative URL", since the link will work in any web that has an /images folder underneath the top level directory - also called the root directory or main directory of your site)

NOW - when you publish your pages, if you have created your pages using a disk-based web, the link may stay as c:\myweb\images\flower.gif (pointing to the file on your hard drive).

If you had created your page using a Server-based web the link http://mylocalweb/images/flower.gif or ../images/flower.gif would become http://www.mysite.com/images/flower.gif when published to your Internet web site using FrontPage Explorer.

Therefore, it's becomes pretty apparent why you can encounter missing images, broken links, non-functional feedback forms when you upload your pages to your web site if they were not created and published with the context of a "FrontPage-based web" on your computer using FrontPage Explorer.

The links and images work on your local computer since you have access to the directory that your page is pointing to where the image/link is stored.  Yet, anyone else who looks at your site on the web can't see the image or view the link if it is referenced in your page as: c:\myweb\images\flower.gif

How to fix broken links, images and feedback forms
You can either edit the .html of the affected pages so the link is formatted correctly or simply create a web on your machine and start publishing and creating your pages using a local FrontPage-based web.

Also check out the following document:
http://support.acmeinternet.com/howtofaqs/frontpage/fplogin.htm

The first part of the above document also explains the difference between your local FrontPage web and your Internet web site.