Idiot need help creating widget

[Mark4865]

Hello,

Well the title say it all "Idiot needs help" thats me, my skills are non exsistant so if someone can give me step by step instructions that would be really great.

I am running version 4.06 currently (will upgrade soon) and want a have a recent articles style widget that shows recent videos I have uploaded into the CMS. I have used embed code and loaded videos as static pages, now I would like a widget that I can put on any page to show a selection of recent videos, is this possible. The videos are in different sizes (mainly 500 x 315)on multiple pages in different sections so I would like to select from various sections. If possible I would like them to appear as a smaller thumbnail type size in the widget so I could show say up to 10 recent vidoes that if you clicked on took you to the relevant page.

My second issue is the current recent articles widget, I have set a preview point in the main article that features on the relevant section page which is great but I want a smaller preview or maybe just a heading to appear in the recent articles widget, how difficult is it to customise or make a new widget to do this.

Once again I must stress I am a technical idiot so I really need step by step help here.

thanks in advance to all who take the time and trouble to respond much appreciated.

Mark