PHP --> GTK --> Widgets --> and multiple apps

[The voice]

To all a cry for help.

The idea I have, I am having major issues figuring out how, and the best way to implement this.

Idea:
I would like to design a back office website that from the home page can display multiple live and changing web applications. All of the web applications all currently work and run. My team and I however would like to make a single page which is customizable by the users, but displays the most frequently accessed apps on a single page. And these apps are all written in php and change on a minute to minute bases. Some of the apps include, a change tracker, weekly metrics apps, vacation tracker, calendar and many more.

Problem: I have looked into the use of widgets, however this seems to be more of an actual application rather than a website. Am I wrong? How would you go about doing something like this. Google handles it very well, however i am not sure if they use portals. widgets, what?

[kykin]

widgets are useful but very scarcely implemented. i would suggest the use of a webpage and the usage of AJAX or some similar scripting that would actively update as information changes. i don't really understand how the scripting work, but to give you a good idea of what the scripting can do, check out

[url=http://www.digg.com/spy]http://www.digg.com/spy[/url]

if this is the way you wanna go, head over to the AJAX board ([url=http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/board,51.0.html]http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/board,51.0.html[/url]) and poke around there.

[The voice]

The digg.com/spy is almost exactly what I am looking for. Except I need to run about 8 different applications (all changing very quickly) on the same page. But this is a good start. Thank you.

:)