If you want to change the page designs, visit this page

http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/...

and view the tutorials on theme development.

Thanks for your help.
but i think i didn't explain well my problem so i will try to do it better.
I have an web site made with concrete5 in a server machine and i have downloaded the files to implement the site in my personal computer to make some changes to the current web-site, and i want to know how i can put it in my computer to start designing it.
if i go to localhost/website-name. i receive a lot of errors and one of them is unable to connect to database.
and in the server i can't find any database. i know when i create a site from the bigginig, they ask a name from the database to create a lot of tables.
some of the errors are:
-Strict Standards: Non-static method Loader::database() should not be called statically in C:\xampp\htdocs\websitename\concrete\dispatcher.php on line 23.

thanks

Hi there,

It sounds like you need to get a server environment set up on your local computer so you can run PHP and create a database, etc. Here are some guides that should help you...

For Windows:http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/installing...

For Mac:http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/installing...

Hi Julia,
Thanks for your reply.
Yes i want something closer to this but with a site that already was created in other pc, and now i want to put it in my pc to edit it, by the way in the server ther's no database, it is supposed to have??

thanks

This may be more basic than you want, but it explains a bit more about the technology behind CMS systems like concrete5.
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/absolute-b...

Before you install, this could be of help.
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/developers/organise-...

You have mentioned that "by the way in the server ther's no database". Its not possible because without database your site won't run. It might be you don't have access it or don't know how to access. If this is the case, then contact your servers hosting provider and ask them to create a backup of the database. After having that database backup, try to import it in your local host.

Rony

Hi Rony thanks for your helpful comment.
now i found the original database in the server and i make a backup and passed to my pc. but unfortunately is giving me an error
"Unable to connect to database.
A database error occurred while processing this request."
so i looked for the site config and as i remmered in my phpmyadmin i dont have user or password, so i put in blank the roe of user and pass. but is giving the same error.
some suggestion?

thanks

If you are using default user, then the username should be "root" and password is blank(nothing to put, just leave it empty. Not even space)

Also check the host name, in your case it will be "localhost".

Rony

ok. i put the user as root and the pass still blank and the server is in lower case localhost, but nothing the problem still there, and i can find how to solve it.
this site was moved from the server to a pc to re-design it.
i copied the database exporting tables and importing because the database is too big, because of the table pagestatistics. in the begginig i had a lot of errors says "static-member..." but i change in php.ini a row and after they disappeared, and only "unable to connect to database" remain. and i don't have any more idea, i cpied the database to a empty database i created in phpmyadmin with the same name as the other, but nothing.


thanks