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-Welcome to [[VdfWiki:About|VdfWiki]]. Here you can share your [[Visual DataFlex]] programming knowledge .
+<!-- Welcome bit -->
+{| style="width:100%; background:#fcfcfc; margin-top:1.2em; border:1px solid #ccc;"
+|style="width:56%; color:#000"| <!--
-Vdfwiki.com is a wiki about Visual DataFlex and other programming related issues.
+-----------"Welcome to Wikipedia" and article count---------->
+{| style="width:280px; border:solid 0px; background:none;"
+|style="width:280px; text-align:center; white-space:nowrap; color:#000;"|
+<div style="font-size:162%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">Welcome to the [[VDFWiki]],</div>
+<div style="top:+0.2em; font-size:95%;">the free [[Dataflex]] [[encyclopedia]] that ''anyone can edit''.</div>
+<div id="articlecount" style="width:100%; text-align:center; font-size:85%;">[[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles in English</div>
+|}<!--
-Be sure to check out the [[VdfWiki guidelines]] for some guidelines on posting to this wiki.
+------------Portal list on righthand side---------->
+|style="width:11%; font-size:95%; color:#000;"|
+*[[Portal:DataFlex|DataFlex]]
+*[[Portal:Visual DataFlex|Visual DataFlex]]
+*[[Portal:Web Applications|Web Applications]]
+|style="width:11%; font-size:95%;"|
+*[[Portal:Data Dictionaries|Data Dictionaries]]
+*[[Portal:Class Reference|Class Reference]]
+*[[Portal:Tutorials|Tutorials]]
+|style="width:11%; font-size:95%;"|
+*[[Portal:DataFlex Community|Dataflex Community]]
+*[[Portal:Development Tools|Development Tools]]
+*'''[[Category Index|All&nbsp;Categories]]'''
+|}
-==Finding Information==
+<!--Left side tables - Featured Article & Recent Additions -->
-There's several ways you can find information on this site.  One of the easiest ways is to use the '''Search''' engine on the left hand menu.
+{|style="border-spacing:8px; margin:0px -8px;"
+|class="MainPageBG" style="width:55%; border:1px solid #cef2e0; background:#f5fffa; vertical-align:top; color:#000;"|
+{|width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top; background:#f5fffa;"
+! <h2 style="margin:0; background:#cef2e0; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Featured article</h2>
+|-
+|style="color:#000;"| {{:Featured_Article}}
+|-
+! <h2 style="margin:0; background:#cef2e0; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Recent Additions</h2>
+|-
+|style="color:#000;"| {{:Recent Additions}}
+|-
+|}
-All pages on the VDFWiki are categorised.  You can browse through categories with the help of the [[Category Index]], or talk a look at any of the secions below:
+<!-- Right side tables - Coming Events -->
+|class="MainPageBG" style="width:45%; border:1px solid #cedff2; background:#f5faff; vertical-align:top"|
+{| width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top; background:#f5faff;"
+! <h2 style="margin:0; background:#cedff2; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3b0bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Coming Events</h2>
+|-
+|style="color:#000;"| {{:Coming events}}
+|-
+|}
+|}
-*[[Web Application|Web]] - VDF Web Application related articles
+{| style="border-spacing:8px; margin:-8px -8px;"
-*[[Web Services|Web services  ]] - VDF Web Service related articles
+|class="MainPageBG" style="width:100%; border:1px solid #ddcef2; background:#faf5ff; vertical-align:top; color:#000;"|
-*[[Visual DataFlex| Windows ]] - Developing Windows applications in VDF
+{| cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top; background:#faf5ff; color:#000"
-*[[DataFlex| Character mode]] - Developing Character Mode applications in Dataflex
+! <h2 style="margin:0; background:#ddcef2; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #afa3bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Want to contribute?</h2>
-*[[Data Dictionaries]] - Data Dictionary related articles
+|-
-*[[Development Tools]] - Tools and techniques of benefit to Dataflex Developers
+|style="color:#000;"|
-==How to Contribute==
 All users are invited to contribute on whatever way they can!  If you're not sure how to contribute, try one of the following:
 *Checkout the list of [[Special:Wantedpages|wanted pages]].  These are pages that are linked to, but not yet written.  If there is one there you feel you can say something useful about, click on the link and start writing.  Those with several links are obviously ''seriously'' needed!
 *Not sure you have any knowledge you can add?  Contribute by helping with Formatting and Categorising of pages.
 *Still not sure?  Feel free to contact one of the many frequent contributors to this site.  We don't bite!
+|-
+|}
+|}
-==Resources==
+<!-- Hides the table of contents -->
-*[http://www.vdf-guidance.com vdf-guidance.com]
+__NOTOC__
-*[http://www.sture.com/wasp 'WASP (Newsgroup search)']
-*[http://sparhell.no/vdfblog/?p=31 Peer support and discussion forum]
-*[http://www.ApplauseSoftware.BlogSpot.Com  'Visual DataFlex blog by Peter Donovan']
-*[http://www.dataaccess.com/support.asp?pageid=771 Data Access Worldwide whitepapers]
-== Help ==
-*[[Getting started with wiki]]
-*Write jacob@sture.dk if you have any questions.