How to change "Archive" page template?

Thank you esmi.

I have gone through that page about 7-8 times, and have done everything “I could understand” and “could do safely.” See. . . . I am a newbie with WP and Web-publishing in general. I just don’t understand the language. I don’t even know what “stylesheet” means.

All I wanted to do was to change the look of the archive page.

Do you have any other suggestions that I may be able to try?

Sorry . . . Very sorry.

I still do not understand.

I have a file called “archive.php” with the heading I copied above, which I created according to “Child Theme” instruction you gave me.

Do you mean I just need to write “style.css” somewhere?

Do I need to create another file? Then, with what?

I am about ot give up.

I just don’t have the basic knowledge to understand it properly. Lik I said, I went through it multiple times.

I did what I understood it said.

Please tell me what part of the heading is wrong and what do I need to add to make it a style.css. I added the last line as the instruction says. Do I need to put it first? It says style.css there.

/*
Theme Name:     My Life Child
Theme URI:      http://themehybrid.com/themes/my-life
Description:    Child archive template for the My Life theme
Author:         Olivia
Author URI:     http://olivetjournal.com
Template:       mylife
Version:        0.3
*/

@import url("../my-life/style.css");

I add this to the top of this file you can see here: http://pastebin.com/Jc0g2hRq

named it, “archive.php” and uploaded it to wp-content/theme/my-life-child according to Jose’s suggestion above.

I am working on it, but how this will make the change on the archive page as I want?

Right.

I uploaded the above Child Theme part s “style.css” and the rest, “archive.php” to wp-content/theme/my-life-child.

Went to admin, then to Mange Theme. Now it says under [Child Theme]:

The parent theme is missing. Please install the “mylife” parent theme.

So, which file am I supposed to copy and upload?