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Hello! I just installed concrete5 to my ipage account, and I log in, in the approriate place, but then, my website comes up, with no dashboard, or anything, except the website I'd been working on. I am not very experienced with creating a website, so I'm hoping there may be a simple solution. The tech people told me it was installed correctly, and I cleared all my cache and cookies...Then, they said that it must be my computer???
I'm really excited to use concrete5, and I am hoping it will work with my computer. If anyone could offer any advice, it would be really appreciated.
 
12345j replied on at Permalink Reply
12345j
your computer shouldnt affect it. Where do you log in? could you give a link? there should be a link at the very bottom of your site that says sign in to edit this site. click on that and sign in there. Then there is an edit bar up top with links to dashboard and how to edit your site. check this out
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/general-topics/...
brookehaywood replied on at Permalink Reply
I just tried again from our other computer, but still came up with the same thing: My home page as it looks so far...
I logged in using admin login, and then it just pulls up my web page...
Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer any suggestions (and hopefully solutions) :)
12345j replied on at Permalink Reply
12345j
could you give a link to the site? or give a screenshot? is the edit bar not visible, or what?
maustin42 replied on at Permalink Reply
Hi, I've had exactly the same experience. I login as admin and just see my home page. I have tried different browsers. I'm sure this must be something I'm doing wrong. Please, can anyone help?
jordanlev replied on at Permalink Reply
jordanlev
Did you build your own theme? If so, you might be missing an important line of code in the <head> that is responsible for displaying the toolbar:
<?php Loader::element('header_required'); ?>
maustin42 replied on at Permalink Reply
Hi jordanlev, thanks for your reply. I checked my index.html, which was created from a theme in weebly, which didn't have that line so I added it to the line after <head> but it still doesn't seem give me anything other than my site when I do the admin login. Any other ideas?
jordanlev replied on at Permalink Reply
jordanlev
You can't automatically import themes from Weebly (or any other system) -- you must go through several specific steps to create a concrete5 theme. There are a few how-to's in the documentation about this:
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/make-a-the...
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/converting...
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/strategies...
Also this one is an oldie but goodie:
http://www.codeblog.ch/2009/01/concrete5-theme-erstellen/...

If you're not familiar with HTML/CSS at all and/or don't want to deal with code, you're going to have to use one of the themes from the c5 marketplace instead.
maustin42 replied on at Permalink Reply
Ah, ok, thank you. I'll go back to school! Lol