Tips on creating a new widget area in the theme cover WP 1.6.5?

The widget areas are declared in functions.php with the function [code]register_sidebar[/code] like this:

register_sidebar( array(
    'name' => 'Sidebar Name',
    'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="topitem widget %2$s">',
    'after_widget' => '</div><!-- /topitem -->',
    'before_title' => '<h3>',
    'after_title' => '</h3>'
) );

Then you can call then where you want them to appear, with the function dynamic_sidebar and the sidebar’s index as an argument:

dynamic_sidebar(7)