Positioning

I am sitting here trying to do my homework for intermediate web design but I'm having a lot of trouble. We are supposed to make 4 examples of positioning: absolute, relative, static, and fixed. So far I can only get an absolute layout to work. This is good and bad. Good because I was able to tell every child div within my container where to go without using the handles and moving it around with my mouse. I defined everything with the CSS. The bad thing is that I sort of feel like absolute positioning is cheating... haha

I am having a lot of trouble with all the other ways to position things. I've found that if you combine different methods within eachother, everything goes haywire. For example, I tried to place a fixed div within a container that was set to absolute, and the fixed div did not work correctly. I'm not sure why...

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