Share 'Widgets -Where do I start?'

I was recently upgraded to the Enterprise Edition and was excited to begin using the widgets I had heard so much about, e.g., news pulls, photo galleries, etc. EXCEPT, there are zero pre-built widgets to dissect and figure out how to build a new one. Cue Game show loser sound effect... "WAAAH wahhh waaaaahhhh" I get that they begin with structures, but what I don't get is how to make the variabl…