where are some good resources to show me how to build a sidebar element for my blog? for example, on my blog i show a vsocail list of my favorite movies as well as a list of my favorite digg articles. i am looking for a way to create my own displayable lists in my sidebar for sites that do not provide the code to do so. for example, http://www.stylehive.com/finnstones, i would like to my a vertical badge of the last 10 entries to this profile , showing title, image name, and with a link. i guess i just need to find a good example but dont have any to go off of. i already know i can make the feed include images by remixing it using rssmix or feed43.

but what i really need is some good resources that provide styling for a sidebar element. some examples out there are cocomment which provides a nice styling package for sharing , on your blog, your comments on other blogs. thanks!

venture ..x...blogalist is my blog , remove the x .... you will see a few such syling sidebar elements.