Beth says it’s a cliche at best.
Melody Ralls was sharp enough to use a widget-centric layout in this theme. Nevertheless, when I hauled down the new WordPress Widget plug-in last night, I discovered tyhat it wasn’t that easy to simply re-widgetize everything. OTOH, reading the readme.txt of these plug-ins is an education in itself!
First time comments are moderated to prevent spam. It gets easier, more natural, less stilted and constrained after that first time.