also, i embedded most plugins successfully, but the calendar does not have links on the dates of posts.. it's just a plain calendar. and i could not embed the recent entries plugin using the same way. i'm guessing it's because the plugin is not an api plugin?

it will probably be fixed widths... any instructions on how to accomplish that with css?

what i meant was be able to turn this:

to something maybe like this (example only.. not really how i want it to look):

the border around the entries would be either jpg or gif

The main problem i'm having with embedding is the sidebar items. I want to be able to put those items anywhere on the page 1 item at a time. Is there a way to do that? or is the only way embeding the items is to do it in 1 single chain?

Another thing is that I want to be able to output the blog ...