Im not going to pretend to be a developer, Im not even sure how I do half the things I do.
AS far as I can workout a widget is a piece of code that is inserted in the sidebar containers on the templates in the new version.
What does a widget consist of? I would guess its a start code and an end code with the required code for the function in the middle.
If this is the case would it be a case of using the start code and end code and you can put things like affiliate links or adverts in the middle.
I wish I was as clever as most of you here but that will never happen, I don't get the time to read up on things in depth but I just like to understand a bit how things work.
A widget is just a fancy name for a plugin that has a skintag call ;)
I made a blog post about them [url=http://www.waffleson.co.uk/2007/06/27/widgets]here[/url] which explains a bit more.
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