i have a website for musicians each musician has their own details page that displays all their details i want to create a section that will display messages to the band and the band can answer these comments and they will be displayed on the same page it will be like a guestbook for each musician how do i do this do i just need to link the database tables or what? im not sure if anyone can help please let me know. cheers

Personally I would rejig some forum code.
Snitz Forum is in ASP and fairly straight forward to modify.

It would also be very simple to have some code that pulled snippets from the threads onto the relevant pages.

how would i link the two different tables i have an artists table and the table from the snitz would need to be linked to know what messages to display. what do i do

you just need a mapping table between artists and threads, how depends on how you identify the artists.

In snitz the threads are in the "topics" table and replies are in the "reply" table, and the linking field in reply is topic_id.

So you would need to pull the artist ID, JOIN the topics ON artistID and JOIN the replies to topics.

SELECT *
FROM Artisttable
WHERE ID = MMColParam

this displays the details of the artists

SELECT *
FROM artistsgb
WHERE ID = MMColParam
ORDER BY ID ASC

is this what its meant to look like
i have joined the two tables up in msaccess from id in the artists table to id in the gbartists table