improved styling of side-bound TableOfContents component

src/lib/banner2.svelte

@@ -1,57 +1,43 @@
 <script lang="ts">
+    import { type BannerContent } from './components/banner-content';
+
     let {
-        title,
+        content,
-        date = "", // date posted
-        dateUpdated = "",
-        dateIndeterminate = "", // raw date without an explanation marker next to it
-        subtitle = "",
-        banner = "",
-        bannerAlt = "",
-        tags = [],
-        pixelated,
     }: {
-        title: string;
+        content: BannerContent;
-        date?: string;
-        dateUpdated?: string;
-        dateIndeterminate?: string;
-        subtitle?: string;
-        banner?: string;
-        bannerAlt?: string;
-        tags?: string[];
-        pixelated?: boolean;
     } = $props();
 
 </script>
 
-{#snippet titles({title, subtitle, date}: {title: string, subtitle: string, date: string})}
+{#snippet titles()}
 	<div class="title-container">
         <div class="title-text-container">
-            <h1 class="title">{title}</h1>
+            <h1 class="title">{content.title}</h1>
 
-            {#if subtitle}
+            {#if content.subtitle}
-                <p class="subtitle">[ {subtitle} ]</p>
+                <p class="subtitle">[ {content.subtitle} ]</p>
             {/if}
 
-            {#if tags.length}
+            {#if content.tags && content.tags.length > 0}
                 <div class="tag-container">
-                    {#each tags as tag}
+                    {#each content.tags as tag}
                         <span class="post-tag">{tag}</span>
                     {/each}
                 </div>
             {/if}
         </div>
-        {#if date || dateUpdated || dateIndeterminate}
+        {#if content.date || content.dateUpdated || content.dateIndeterminate}
             <div class="date-container">
-                {#if dateIndeterminate}
+                {#if content.dateIndeterminate && content.dateIndeterminate != "undefined"}
-                    <p class="date">:: {dateIndeterminate}</p>
+                    <p class="date">:: {content.dateIndeterminate}</p>
                 {/if}
 
-                {#if date}
+                {#if content.date && content.date != "undefined"}
-                    <p class="date">posted :: {date}</p>
+                    <p class="date">posted :: {content.date}</p>
                 {/if}
 
-                {#if dateUpdated}
+                {#if content.dateUpdated && content.dateUpdated != "undefined"}
-                    <p class="date">last updated :: {dateUpdated}</p>
+                    <p class="date">last updated :: {content.dateUpdated}</p>
                 {/if}
             </div>
         {/if}
@@ -59,13 +45,13 @@
 {/snippet}
 
 <div class="container">
-    {#if banner && banner !== ""}
+    {#if content.banner && content.banner !== ""}
-        <a class="banner-container" href={banner}>
+        <a class="banner-container" href={content.banner}>
-            <img class="banner {pixelated ? "pixelated-img" : ""}" src={banner} alt={bannerAlt}>
+            <img class="banner {content.pixelated ? "pixelated-img" : ""}" src={content.banner} alt={content.bannerAlt}>
         </a>
     {/if}
     
-    {@render titles({title, subtitle, date})}
+    {@render titles()}
     <hr>
 </div>
 

src/lib/components/banner-content.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+export interface BannerContent {
+    title: string;
+    date?: string; // date posted
+    dateUpdated?: string;
+    dateIndeterminate?: string; // raw date without an explanation marker next to it
+    subtitle?: string;
+    banner?: string;
+    bannerAlt?: string;
+    tags?: string[];
+    pixelated?: boolean;
+}

src/lib/components/table-of-contents.svelte

@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 <script lang="ts">
-    import {onMount} from 'svelte';
+    import { onMount } from 'svelte';
+
+    let {
+        type,
+    }: {
+        // possible values: none, 'side'
+        type: string;
+    } = $props();
 
     interface TocEntry {
         text: string;
@@ -63,7 +70,7 @@
 {/snippet}
 
 {#if tocEntries.length > 0}
-    <div class="toc-container blurred-background">
+    <div class="{type ? "toc-container-side" : "toc-container"} blurred-background">
         <ul class="toc-list">
             {#each tocEntries as entry}
                 {@render tocEntryLine({ entry })}
@@ -74,21 +81,38 @@
 
 <style>
     :global {
-        body {
+        .toc-container, .toc-container-side {
-            --padding-indent-base: 44px;
+            box-sizing: border-box;
-            --padding-level-indent: 24px;
+            padding: 16px 0;
+            border-radius: var(--border-radius);
         }
         
         .toc-container {
+            --padding-indent-base: 44px;
+            --padding-level-indent: 24px;
+
             max-width: var(--width-toc);
             margin-left: auto;
             margin-right: auto;
             margin-top: 12px;
-            box-sizing: border-box;
-            background-color: var(--color-background-highlight);
-            padding: 16px 0;
             border: var(--border-style) var(--border-dash-size) var(--color-highlight);
-        border-radius: var(--border-radius);
+            background-color: var(--color-background-highlight);
+        }
+
+        .toc-container-side {
+            --padding-indent-base: 24px;
+            --padding-level-indent: 24px;
+
+            width: 400px;
+            margin: 32px 12px 0 12px;
+            position: sticky;
+            top: 64px;
+            border-left: var(--border-style) var(--border-dash-size) var(--color-highlight);
+        }
+
+        .toc-container-side .toc-list a {
+            border-top-right-radius: var(--border-radius);
+            border-bottom-right-radius: var(--border-radius);
         }
 
         .toc-list {

src/lib/viewport/content-sidebar.svelte

@@ -1,22 +1,54 @@
-<div class="content">
+<script lang="ts">
-    <div class="side">
+    import Banner2 from "$lib/banner2.svelte";
-        <slot name="side-left" />
+    import type { BannerContent } from "$lib/components/banner-content";
-    </div>
+    import ScrollTopButton from "$lib/components/scroll-top-button.svelte";
-    <div class="main">
+    import TableOfContents from "$lib/components/table-of-contents.svelte";
-        <slot name="main" />
+    import type { Snippet } from "svelte";
+
+    let {
+        children,
+        bannerContent,
+    }: {
+        children: Snippet,
+        bannerContent: BannerContent;
+    } = $props();
+</script>
+
+<div class="container">
+    <Banner2 content={bannerContent}/>
+
+    <div class="content">
+        <div class="content-sidebar-main-container">
+            {@render children()}
+            <ScrollTopButton />
+        </div>
+        <div class="side">
+            <TableOfContents type="side" />
+        </div>
     </div>
 </div>
 
 <style>
-    .content {
+    /* not elegant at all but it works */
-        max-width: 2000px;
+    :global {
+        .content-sidebar-main-container > *:nth-child(1) {
+            margin-top: 0 !important;
+        }
+    }
+    .container {
+        width: var(--page-width);
         margin: 0 auto;
+        padding: 0 24px;
+        box-sizing: border-box;
+    }
+
+    .content {
         display: flex;
         flex-direction: row;
-        padding: 0 24px;
     }
+
     .side {
-        min-width: 400px;
+        width: fit-content;
     }
 
     @media screen and (max-width: 800px) {

src/lib/viewport/content.svelte

@@ -1,10 +1,23 @@
 <script lang="ts">
+    import Banner2 from "$lib/banner2.svelte";
+    import type { BannerContent } from "$lib/components/banner-content";
     import ScrollTopButton from "$lib/components/scroll-top-button.svelte";
+    import type { Snippet } from "svelte";
 
-    let { children } = $props();
+    let {
+        children,
+        bannerContent,
+    }: {
+        children: Snippet,
+        bannerContent?: BannerContent;
+    } = $props();
 </script>
 
 <div class="main-content">
+    {#if bannerContent}
+        <Banner2 content={bannerContent} />
+    {/if}
+    
     <ScrollTopButton />
     {@render children()}
 </div>

src/routes/art/music/+page.svelte

@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@
     <title>My Tracks | denizk0461</title> 
 </svelte:head>
 
-<Content>
+<Content bannerContent={{
-    <Banner2
+    title: "My Tracks",
-        title="My Tracks"
+    subtitle: "",
-        subtitle=""
+    banner: "",
-        banner=""
+    bannerAlt: "",
-        bannerAlt="" />
+}}>
 
     well this is awkward. there's nothing here yet. come back later?
 

src/routes/blog/+page.svelte

@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@
     <title>Blog | denizk0461</title> 
 </svelte:head>
 
-<Content>
+<Content bannerContent={{
-	<Banner2
+    title: "Blog",
-		title="Blog"
+    banner: "robert.webp",
-        banner="robert.webp"
+    bannerAlt: "View at a tram bridge rising and then curving to the left.",
-        bannerAlt="View at a tram bridge rising and then curving to the left." />
+}}>
 
     <!-- TODO descriptions on filter click -->
     <div class="tag-filters-alt">

src/routes/blog/[year]/[date]/+page.svelte

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 <script>
-    import Banner2 from "$lib/banner2.svelte";
+    import ContentSidebar from "$lib/viewport/content-sidebar.svelte";
-    import Content from "$lib/viewport/content.svelte";
-    import TableOfContents from "$lib/components/table-of-contents.svelte";
 
 	export let data;
 </script>
@@ -12,18 +10,16 @@
     <meta name="DCTERMS.created" content="{data.date}T{data.time}">
 </svelte:head>
 
-<Content>
+<ContentSidebar bannerContent={{
-    <Banner2
+    title: data.title,
-        title="{data.title}"
+    subtitle: data.subtitle,
-        subtitle="{data.subtitle}"
+    date: data.date,
-        date="{data.date}"
+    dateUpdated: data.dateUpdated,
-        dateUpdated="{data.dateUpdated}"
+    banner: data.banner,
-        banner="{data.banner}"
+    bannerAlt: `Banner for blog post '${data.title}'`,
-        bannerAlt="Banner for blog post '{data.title}'"
+    tags: data.tags,
-        tags={data.tags} />
+}}>
-
-    <TableOfContents />
 
     <svelte:component this={data.content} />
 
-</Content>
+</ContentSidebar>

src/routes/drawings/+page.svelte

@@ -12,13 +12,12 @@
     <title>Drawing Gallery | denizk0461</title>
 </svelte:head>
 
-<Content>
+<Content bannerContent={{
-    <Banner2
+    title: "Drawing Gallery",
-        title="Drawing Gallery"
+    banner: "banner.webp",
-        banner="banner.webp"
+    bannerAlt: "Several Faber-Castell Polychromos colour pencils lined up with markings next to them in the same colour on a sheet of paper.",
-        bannerAlt="Several Faber-Castell Polychromos colour pencils lined up with markings next to them in the same colour on a sheet of paper."
+    subtitle: "sketches & stuff",
-        subtitle="???"
+}}>
-        />
     
     <div class="selected-container">
         <a class="selected-img-link" href={drawingsRev[selectedIndex].src}>

src/routes/feed/+page.svelte

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 <script lang="ts">
-    import Content from "$lib/viewport/content.svelte";
-    import Banner2 from "$lib/banner2.svelte";
-    import TableOfContents from "$lib/components/table-of-contents.svelte";
     import ImageRow from "$lib/media/image-row.svelte";
+    import ContentSidebar from "$lib/viewport/content-sidebar.svelte";
 
     export let data;
 </script>
@@ -31,20 +29,17 @@
     </div>
 {/snippet}
 
-<Content>
+<ContentSidebar bannerContent={{
-    <Banner2
+    title: "Creative Feed",
-        title="Creative Feed"
+    banner: "banner.webp",
-        banner="banner.webp"
+    bannerAlt: "A blue screen with the text 'how do you do art ? 1. face your fears 2. become your heroes'. The 'art' looks to have been edited in. The music artist Porter Robinson is standing in the bottom right corner.",
-        bannerAlt="A blue screen with the text 'how do you do art ? 1. face your fears 2. become your heroes'. The 'art' looks to have been edited in. The music artist Porter Robinson is standing in the bottom right corner."
+    subtitle: "minor things I have worked on",
-        subtitle="minor things I have worked on"
+}}>
-    />
 
     <p>Welcome to my creative feed! It is heavily inspired by <a href="https://deathsurplus.com/">DeathSurplus' art blog</a> – definitely go check out his website!</p>
 
     <p>This page is intended to be a contrasting companion to the <a href="/projects"><code>projects</code> page</a>; I'll use this page for smaller things that don't fit the dedicated-page-format.</p>
 
-    <!-- <TableOfContents /> -->
-
     {@render pageButtons(data.currentPage)}
     
     {#each data.feedPosts as post}
@@ -62,7 +57,7 @@
 
     {@render pageButtons(data.currentPage)}
 
-</Content>
+</ContentSidebar>
 
 <style>
     .page-button-container {

src/routes/meta/about/+page.svelte

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 <script lang="ts">
-    import Banner2 from "$lib/banner2.svelte";
-    import Content from "$lib/viewport/content.svelte";
-    import TableOfContents from "$lib/components/table-of-contents.svelte";
     import LinkList, { type LinkEntry } from "$lib/lists/link-list.svelte";
+    import ContentSidebar from "$lib/viewport/content-sidebar.svelte";
 
     let favouriteAlbums: LinkEntry[] = [
         {
@@ -108,17 +106,15 @@
 </svelte:head>
 
 
-<Content>
+<ContentSidebar bannerContent={{
-    <Banner2
+    title: "About Me & natconf.dev",
-        title="About Me & natconf.dev"
+    banner: "/me.webp",
-        banner="/me.webp"
+    bannerAlt: "Mirror picture of me, pixelated beyond recognition",
-        bannerAlt="Mirror picture of me, pixelated beyond recognition"
+    subtitle: "If you'd like to learn more about me and my website",
-        subtitle="If you'd like to learn more about me and my website"
+    date: "2025-08-10",
-        date="2025-08-10"
+    dateUpdated: "2026-04-03",
-        dateUpdated="2026-04-03"
+    pixelated: true,
-        pixelated />
+}}>
-
-    <TableOfContents />
 
     <p>Hi there! I'm Deniz (they/them). Welcome to my website!</p>
 
@@ -199,7 +195,7 @@
     <p>When I was recently replaying the original Ratchet & Clank (2002) in German, I noticed again that the dialogue translated into German is often longer than the original English dialogue, which makes characters' voice lines run into one another. This doesn't happen in the English original.</p>
 
     <p>This is most noticeable in the cutscene that plays after you acquire the Hologuise on planet Kalebo III, where <a href="https://youtu.be/XIShUN7AUqg?t=3479">the narrator explains how the Hologuise works</a>. The narrations lags WAY behind the visuals, to the point that there's a brief black screen at the end while the narration is still ongoing, and then it just cuts off the narrator entirely.</p>
-</Content>
+</ContentSidebar>
 
 <style>
     .faq-question {

src/routes/meta/feeds/+page.svelte

@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@
     <title>Feeds | denizk0461</title> 
 </svelte:head>
 
-<Content>
+<Content bannerContent={{
-	<Banner2
+	title: "Feeds",
-		title="Feeds"
+	subtitle: "XML feeds",
-		subtitle="XML feeds" />
+}}>
 
 	<p>This is a list of RSS feeds I maintain on this website. You can subscribe to them by adding the link of any feed to an RSS reader of your liking.</p>
 

src/routes/meta/music-rotation/+page.svelte

@@ -8,11 +8,10 @@
     <title>Music Rotation | denizk0461</title>
 </svelte:head>
 
-<Content>
+<Content bannerContent={{
-    <Banner2
+    title: "Music Rotation",
-        title="Music Rotation"
+    dateUpdated: "2026-04-14",
-        dateUpdated="2026-04-14"
+}}>
-        />
 
     <p>content coming soon.</p>
 

src/routes/meta/now/+page.svelte

@@ -7,11 +7,10 @@
     <title>Now | denizk0461</title>
 </svelte:head>
 
-<Content>
+<Content bannerContent={{
-    <Banner2
+    title: "Now",
-        title="Now"
+    dateUpdated: "2026-04-14",
-        dateUpdated="2026-04-14"
+}}>
-        />
 
     <p>content coming soon.</p>
 

src/routes/other/privacy/+page.svelte

@@ -7,11 +7,10 @@
     <title>Privacy & Cookies | denizk0461</title>
 </svelte:head>
 
-<Content>
+<Content bannerContent={{
-    <Banner2
+    title: "Information on Privacy & Cookies",
-        title="Information on Privacy & Cookies"
+    dateUpdated: "2025-09-10",
-        dateUpdated="2025-09-10"
+}}>
-        />
 
     <p>This page uses <b>no cookies</b> as of now. No data will be stored on your device while browsing this website. <b>No trackers</b> are used either – <b>no analytics</b>, not even a visit counter of any kind. Not by a third-party, and currently, none I built myself either.</p>
 

src/routes/projects/+page.svelte

@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@
     <title>Projects | denizk0461</title> 
 </svelte:head>
 
-<Content>
+<Content bannerContent={{
-    <Banner2
+    title: "My Disordered Projects",
-        title="My Disordered Projects"
+    banner: "banner.webp",
-        banner="banner.webp"
+    bannerAlt: "An upside-down New 3DS XL lying open on a desk with a small USB-C breakout board attached to it, and a USB-C cable plugged in. The 3DS is glowing to indicate that it is charging.",
-        bannerAlt="An upside-down New 3DS XL lying open on a desk with a small USB-C breakout board attached to it, and a USB-C cable plugged in. The 3DS is glowing to indicate that it is charging."
+    subtitle: "things I have worked on",
-        subtitle="things I have worked on" />
+}}>
 
     <p>Welcome to my 💫new💫 projects page! Here I show off all the things I have done. Projects are ordered reverse-chronologically and have some other neat information displayed. have fun browsing~!</p>
 

src/routes/projects/[category]/[id]/+page.svelte

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 <script>
-    import Banner2 from "$lib/banner2.svelte";
+    import ContentSidebar from "$lib/viewport/content-sidebar.svelte";
-    import Content from "$lib/viewport/content.svelte";
-    // import TableOfContents from "$lib/components/table-of-contents.svelte";
 
 	export let data;
 </script>
@@ -12,17 +10,14 @@
     <meta name="DCTERMS.created" content="{data.projectDetails.date}T12:00">
 </svelte:head>
 
-<Content>
+<ContentSidebar bannerContent={{
-    <Banner2
+    title: data.projectDetails.title,
-        title="{data.projectDetails.title}"
+    subtitle: data.projectDetails.subtitle,
-        subtitle="{data.projectDetails.subtitle}"
+    dateIndeterminate: data.projectDetails.date,
-        dateIndeterminate="{data.projectDetails.date}"
+    dateUpdated: data.projectDetails.dateUpdated,
-        dateUpdated="{data.projectDetails.dateUpdated}"
+    banner: data.projectDetails.banner,
-        banner="{data.projectDetails.banner}"
+    bannerAlt: data.projectDetails.bannerAlt,
-        bannerAlt="{data.projectDetails.bannerAlt}"
+}}>
-        />
-
-    <!-- <TableOfContents /> -->
 
     {#if data.projectDetails.links.length > 0}
         <div class="link-button-container">
@@ -34,7 +29,7 @@
 
     <svelte:component this={data.content} />
 
-</Content>
+</ContentSidebar>
 
 <style>
     .link-button-container {

src/routes/projects/projectn5/+page.svelte

@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@
     <title>Homesick | denizk0461</title> 
 </svelte:head>
 
-<Content>
+<Content bannerContent={{
-    <Banner2
+    title: "Homesick",
-        title="Homesick"
+    banner: "/projects/projectn5/banner2.webp",
-        banner="/projects/projectn5/banner2.webp"
+    bannerAlt: "The protagonist Laura standing on a floating platform in the purple test level. Ziplines are all around her and the text 'When this text is spinning, the game is not paused' is frozen in the sky.",
-        bannerAlt="The protagonist Laura standing on a floating platform in the purple test level. Ziplines are all around her and the text 'When this text is spinning, the game is not paused' is frozen in the sky." />
+}}>
 
     <p>I am currently working on a game under the working title <b>Homesick</b> (fka Project N5)! I'm aiming for it to be an action-adventure jump-and-run game inspired by games such as Ratchet & Clank. Development started on <b>2023-09-16</b> and rebooted on <b>2025-05-16</b>.</p>
 

src/routes/projects/projectn5/devlog/[year]/[date]/+page.svelte

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 <script>
-    import Banner2 from "$lib/banner2.svelte";
+    import ContentSidebar from "$lib/viewport/content-sidebar.svelte";
-    import Content from "$lib/viewport/content.svelte";
-    import TableOfContents from "$lib/components/table-of-contents.svelte";
 
 	export let data;
 </script>
@@ -12,18 +10,14 @@
     <meta name="DCTERMS.created" content="{data.date}">
 </svelte:head>
 
-<Content>
+<ContentSidebar bannerContent={{
-
+    title: data.title,
-    <Banner2
+    subtitle: "Homesick Devlog",
-        title="{data.title}"
+    date: data.date,
-        subtitle="Homesick Devlog"
+    banner: "preview.webp",
-        date="{data.date}"
+    bannerAlt: data.bannerAlt,
-        banner="preview.webp"
+}}>
-        bannerAlt="{data.bannerAlt}"    
-    />
-
-    <TableOfContents />
 
     <svelte:component this={data.content} />
 
-</Content>
+</ContentSidebar>