Thanks Jan. When I try to do this, my site doesn’t work. I have a file that contains all of the files (.css and .php) for Twenty Eleven, and I’ve modified the style.css file to reflect the fact that this is a new theme, etc. I compress it all into a .zip and upload it as a new theme on my dashboard, but then I get an error page when I try to go to my site, saying that it may be configured incorrectly (which is likely true).
A tangential (and probably very very basic) question is that when I upload files to my host’s directory (I’m using Bluehost) what do I do with them after that? I tried the approach of making a new child theme directory and got everything onto my host website, but then how to I get them to show up on my WordPress site?
I’m sure that these are very easy to someone who is WordPress- and web-savvy, but this is all so totally new to me and I have no clue what I’m doing. Hopefully it’ll get easier from here!
