Sure,
Under your scrapbook tab in the dashboard,you should see a list of scrapbooks and beneath that... a "add a shared scrapbook" area.
Go ahead and type Global Scrapbook into the scrapbook name box and click the Add Button.
Global Scrapbook should now show in your scrapbook list. Open Global by clicking on it to see a radio button that says "add block to scrapbook". Add an empty content block and save it... then rename that block "My_Site_Name" (quotation marks included)

All done!
This block can be edited for text or logo display

Ok call me stupid but how does that change my site name and or logo? The site name I put in under SITEWIDE SETTINGS stillis the only name thjat appears. I am just new to using C5

Thanks

Different themes, written by different developers, likely have different features built in.
That said, you indicated you didn't have the Global scrapbook and wanted to know how to replace it?
I can't vouch for all themes, but the pre-installed themes in C5 Do change the site name displayed on the page top when changed in the Global scrapbook. **Important** names changes, to me, seem to be particularly "sticky". You must clear your cached in sitewide settings and your browser too (f5) to view the changes.**

Site names shown on the browser tab (and on the main page with some themes like Yosemite) can be changed by entering a new site name in the entry box on top of the sitewide settings tab.

Hope this helps you.

I'm having a similar problem and followed your directions to 'chanage' the site name. What I want to do is completely remove the site name as the name will appear in the logo banner. When I take out the site name and hit 'save', a new name of "concrete5" is automatically popped in and that's what now is showing on the page. How can I leave this area completely blank?

And, can I remove this header block completely as I'd like to move the logo banner to the top of the page. If I can, what exactly is the code lines in -- I'm assuming -- the CSS page to remove.

I'm new to Concrete5. I'm using it because I thought/think it will be easy for people to edit their own websites after they're made whereas Joomla is more difficult for the end-user to learn. But I'm finding that Concrete5 has a very steep learning curve in the design. All the many, many, many forum questions support this statement. I've already asked Lynda.com if they can add Concrete5 to their training videos.

Any help getting this site name area to 'blank' or deleting the block altogether (which is what I want to do) would be appreciated. Thank you.

I depends on the Theme you are using is it a default theme? do you have access to the header.php

If so you need to remove the SITE part in your header,
normally something like
<h1><?php echo SITE?></h1>
What you can then do is replace that with


you could make it a content block and then make it h1? or just leave it out all together if you are using an image to display the text.

You could even upload the image into the content block/image block
then have it be customisable

C5 has a very STEEP learning curve! I have another question after reading
tons of other's issues. It appears that if I change something in code that
I want to remain changed on the site I'm creating, I should be copying the
template into my root directory and renaming it and use that template. Or,
from what I'm gathering, if there's an update to a template in C5 it will
revert back my revised template to that update. Is that correct.


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Subject: Chnage Site name when Global Scrapbook is not present: Chnage Site
name when Global Scrapbook is not present

Hey Bizzy,
I kind-of see your point about learning curve. My view is C5 is very intuitive for a developer (or dedicated enthusiast)to modify and create with... and is Exceptionally easy for the end user/client to maintain and edit. The beauty of the system is its flexibility.

Yes, if you are modifying a core theme, it makes senses to copy / rename & and move it up one directory (this is to the top level empty folder, not all the way to the root). I've personally made a habit of saving an archive of the modified theme to desktop as a back-up and for the convenience of future edits if needed.
(by the way, updates are manually activated... but if it does restore your theme to "stock", you can just re-upload as saved copy to apply the changes again)

Okay, thanks. That's helps.

The only reason I'm struggling so hard with learning this program is because Dreamweaver -- which is what I usually use -- won't work for the end user. Joomla --which is much easier to build sites in -- isn't easy for the end user. So, I'm using C5 and pulling my hair out!

I use Dreamweaver to develop, I quite like it.

Code hinting, and glorified FTP,

I don't use any of the built in css editors or templates, I only use it to edit the html,php, js and css.

And generally only ever use code view.

For the most part when I create a site, I have a default template, which I copy from the concrete>themes>default into my root theme>custom>

In here I have my basic setup, I also tend to include all my custom blocks, and core overrides so when i install my site all I need to upload is my root, saving time not uploading the concrete folder.

Is this a custom theme you are working on?

Thanks for your reply. The current site I'm working on is only slightly customized. In reading all the forums, I found one that said there was a book available that Remo wrote. I found it at Packtpub and ordered the pdf download. It's FANTASTIC! I'm following the book page by page and building my site as I go. I'm only on page 70 out of 320 so far, but the "light bulbs" are going off in my head and the frustration is melting away. Once you get an idea of what all the functions are and do and can relate them back to other programs -- like the availability of "layers", etc., it all starts to make sense. I will most likely do the same as you and use Dreamweaver as my frontend to modify code, etc. and use Concrete5 as my middleware (which I think is what it's designed as). I think Concrete5 is going to be so much more user-friendly for the ultimate end user which will be the client I'm building a site for. I'm just building small, simple sites so this should be perfect. I was using Joomla, but I think C5 is better for the end-user.
I am having one issue that I'm not sure about. I turned on the "Pretty URL" and when I click on anything other than the Home page, my localhost can't find the pages. I'm using WAMP instead of XAMPP, but I don't think that's the problem. It may be because I also have Joomla installed at the core root of my C: drive under WAMP. To get to my home page I have to put inhttp://localhost/concrete5.4.1.1/... and it pops right in. If I put in just thehttp://localhost/ it goes to a page that gives me the option of using Joomla or C5 and when I click on C5 I get the abovehttp://localhost/concrete5.4.1.1...
-- but, I get a page not found error for the other pages with the Pretty URL turned on. I turned it off and now everything works fine except my URL isn't pretty (such is life -- I might be able to fix that when I upload the site to the remote host. But if you have any ideas?????

If you have access to the htacces file can you use the following?

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /concrete5.4.1.1/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
I have never worked on a local copy before so this is a guess, I don't know if it will work, but if wamp is using apache it should be ok?

Thanks. I'll try it in my next site. I'm using WAMP because of the controller issues in Xamp (some workaround that I didn't want to deal with in the new release). WAMP is the same with Apache, mySQL, PHP, etc. -- just doesn't have filezilla and this new smarttom or something like that.