Personally, I think there is nothing cooler for a website than some really fun widgets. They can take an ordinary site and make it extraordinary in a matter of moments. The trick is to find one that works for the theme of your site or blog. Do you know what a widget is?

With a widget you can place information from your blog onto other webpages. You could also use your these widgets for your personal pages on any of the social networks Facebook or Myspace. Not only is it fun and informative, but it's also an excellent promotional tool. Here is how to create your very own widget.

Create a directory to hold your widget. They install as "widget packages" or directories with a .wdgt extension and are found in OS X in one of two folders. The Standard Tiger system widgets are stored in the "/Library/Widgets" folder and user-installed widgets are stored in the "~/Library/Widgets" folder.

Open a new widget folder and hold down on the "Control" key while you click on the newly created "Wdgt file." In the menu, select "Show Package Contents" to open a new folder. Keep this folder open in order to easily drag files into it.

Choose a widget image. Take a image you like and create a PNG image file. Label this file "default.png." Now that this is created, drag the file into the widget folder.

Define the "info.plist" file, a property list that holds important information used by Dashboard to identify the widget. Use the Property List Editor application found in: "/Developer/Applications/Utilities." Use XML code to create the CFBundleIdentifier key, a unique string for your widget and the MainHTML key. This tells the dashboard the HTML file to use in your widget. Choose "Save As" from the file and label the file as "info.plist" and drag it into the widget folder.

Establish a main HTML file and label it as "index.html." Drag the file into your widget folder.

Open the HTML file to view the widget running and to see any changes. A widget is created using HTML, for this reason it is possible to preview your widget using any web browser, while at the same time writing the markup in your favorite text editor.