Sticky Footer (not sticking!)

A novice coder here. I've been trying to implement a sticky footer onto my site, but it's simply not working. Basically, it is an image, with some text positioned absolutely on it. Here's my site: http://mc-airlines.hostei.com

As you can see, it's definitely not working!

I'm using this: http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/ to do it. Here's the code relevant to the footer on my site:

* {
margin: 0;
}

body, html {
text-align:center;
border-width: 0px; 
margin:0;
padding:0;
height:100%;
}


#container{
position:relative;
margin: 0 auto -175px;
width:960px;
min-height:100%;
height: auto !important;
text-align:left;
}

#footer{
margin: 0 auto;
text-align:left;
width:960px;
height:175px;
}


#links {
font-family: 'HelveticaNeueRegular', Trebuchet MS, Verdana, sans-serif;
color:white;
font-size: 18px;
padding: 10px;
position: absolute;
bottom: 23px;
left: 0;
width: 300px;
}

#links2{
font-family: 'HelveticaNeueRegular', Trebuchet MS, Verdana, sans-serif;
color:white;
font-size: 18px;
padding: 10px;
position: absolute;
bottom: 10px;
left: 310px;
width: 420px;
}

And my html:

<div id="container">

<!-- (site content -->

<div class="push"></div>

</div>

<div id="footer">

<img src="images/footer.png" alt="footer" class="foot"/>

<div id="links">
<script type="text/javascript">copyright=new Date();
update=copyright.getFullYear();
document.write("&copy "+ update + " MC Airlines");</script><br>
<span class="psmall">
All content on this site belongs to MC Airlines and its subsidiaries, and may not be used without prior permission from Mr MC. Just kidding, he probably won't reply - just don't abuse it too much :) </span>
</div>

<div id="links2">
Other Links <br>
<span class="psmall">
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="">Our Partners</a><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="">MC Airlines Thread</a><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="">MC Airlines Wiki</a><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="">Cyber Airlines</a><br></span>
<span class="pxsmall">
We can not be held responsible for the content on external sites. I mean c'mon, that's just unfair.
</span>
</div>

<!-- #footer close -->        
</div>

If anyone can point out what I'm doing wrong I'd be very grateful.

Thanks!

Solution

Your sticky footer is not working because you are using position:absolute to layout your page and the footer does not know where to position itself in your document. A quick fix would be to position your footer absolutely as well, e.g.

#footer {
    left: 50%;
    margin: 0 auto 0 -480px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 1400px;
}

But what i would actually recommend is to position your divs correctly and use floats instead of position:absolute, this will fix all problems that will arise from using such a layout and will be semantically correct.