diff --git a/sass/code-highlight-dark.scss b/sass/code-highlight-dark.scss
deleted file mode 100644
index 39ca9c9..0000000
--- a/sass/code-highlight-dark.scss
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * based on Monokai, modified to fit reasonable colors
- */
-@import 'reasonable-colors';
-
-   
-.z-comment {
-color: $color-gray-3;
-}
-.z-string {
-color: $color-amber-2;
-}
-.z-constant.z-numeric {
-color: $color-purple-3;
-}
-.z-constant.z-language {
-color: $color-purple-3;
-}
-.z-constant.z-character, .z-constant.z-other {
-color: $color-purple-3;
-}
-.z-keyword {
-color: $color-raspberry-3;
-}
-.z-storage {
-color: $color-raspberry-3;
-}
-.z-storage.z-type {
-color: $color-powder-2;
-font-style: italic;
-}
-.z-entity.z-name.z-class {
-color: $color-green-2;
-font-style: underline;
-}
-.z-entity.z-other.z-inherited-class {
-color: $color-green-2;
-font-style: underline;
-font-style: italic;
-}
-.z-entity.z-name.z-function {
-color: $color-green-2;
-}
-.z-variable.z-parameter {
-color: $color-cinnamon-2;
-font-style: italic;
-}
-.z-entity.z-name.z-tag {
-color: $color-raspberry-3;
-}
-.z-entity.z-other.z-attribute-name {
-color: $color-green-2;
-}
-.z-support.z-function {
-color: $color-powder-2;
-}
-.z-support.z-constant {
-color: $color-powder-2;
-}
-.z-support.z-type, .z-support.z-class {
-color: $color-powder-2;
-font-style: italic;
-}
-.z-invalid {
-color: $color-gray-1;
-background-color: $color-raspberry-3;
-}
-.z-invalid.z-deprecated {
-color: $color-gray-1;
-background-color: $color-purple-3;
-}
-.z-path {
-color: $color-indigo-3;
-}
-.z-generic {
-color: $color-green-3;
-}
-.z-return-type {
-color: $color-green-2;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/sass/style.sass b/sass/style.sass
index 4bfe846..f49dc33 100644
--- a/sass/style.sass
+++ b/sass/style.sass
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
 
 body
     display: grid
-    grid-template-areas: "nav content" "sidebar content" "footer content"
+    grid-template-areas: "sidebar content" "footer content"
 
-    grid-template-rows: 50px 1fr 50px
+    grid-template-rows: 1fr 50px
     grid-template-columns: 20rem 1fr
 
     grid-column-gap: 2rem
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ body
     div.debug
         padding-left: 2ch 
 
+    div.sections
+        display: flex
+        flex-flow: column nowrap
+        padding-bottom: 0.5rem
+        border-bottom: 2px solid silver
+        margin-bottom: 0.5rem
+
     a
         color: #0053a7
         text-decoration: underline 0.1em rgba(0, 83, 167, 0)
@@ -71,18 +78,6 @@ body
             a
                 white-space: nowrap
 
-    nav
-        @include padding-horiz(1rem)
-        grid-area: nav
-
-        height: 50px
-        display: flex
-        flex-flow: row nowrap
-        justify-content: space-between
-        align-items: center
-        background-color: #f2f2e1
-
-    
     article
         @include padding-horiz(2rem)
         margin: 1rem 0
@@ -141,7 +136,6 @@ body
         grid-area: sidebar
         overflow-y: scroll
         background-color: #f2f2e1
-        border-top: 2px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1)
         border-bottom: 2px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1)
         display: flex
         flex-flow: column nowrap
@@ -157,56 +151,6 @@ body
     #theme-toggle
         cursor: pointer
     
-    
-
-
-body.dark
-    // todo: fix lmao
-    background-color: #232327
-    color: #e7e3d5
-
-    a
-        color: #207edb
-        text-decoration-color: rgba(30, 115, 201, 0)
-        &:hover
-            text-decoration-color: rgba(30, 115, 201, 0.5)
-        
-        &:visited
-            color: #aa99ff
-
-        &:active
-            color: #ed4523
-
-
-    article
-        font-family: "Iosevka Etoile Web"
-        color: #e9e3d3
-        background-color: #0a0b0c
-        background-image: url("rocky-wall-50.png")
-
-        pre
-            background-color: rgba(5, 5, 5, 0.6)
-            box-shadow: 0 0 0.5rem 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5) inset
-
-            table td
-                mark
-                    color: #e9e3d3
-
-            code
-                @import code-highlight-dark
-        
-            mark
-                background-color: rgba($color-yellow-2, 0.1)
-
-    aside
-        background-color: #18181a
-
-    nav
-        background-color: #18181a
-
-    footer
-        background-color: #18181a
-
 
 @media print 
     body
diff --git a/static/script.js b/static/script.js
deleted file mode 100644
index f6aeb8e..0000000
--- a/static/script.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-let placeholder = document.getElementById('theme-toggle-placeholder');
-
-if (placeholder) {
-    let toggle = document.createElement("span");
-    toggle.id = "theme-toggle";
-    toggle.addEventListener("click", () => {
-        toggle_theme_pref();
-        update_theme();
-        update_theme_toggle();
-    });
-    placeholder.replaceWith(toggle);
-
-    update_theme_toggle();
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/templates/base.html b/templates/base.html
index d1916c5..1541d52 100644
--- a/templates/base.html
+++ b/templates/base.html
@@ -20,42 +20,7 @@
     {% endblock css -%}
 
   </head>
-  <body {% if config.extra.default_dark %}class="dark"{% endif %}>
-    <script>
-        function get_theme_pref() {
-            let pref_dark = false
-            if(localStorage.getItem('prefers-color') === 'dark') {
-                pref_dark = true;
-            } else if(localStorage.getItem('prefers-color') === 'light') {
-                pref_dark = false;
-            } else {
-                pref_dark = window.matchMedia('(prefers-color-scheme: dark)').matches;
-            }
-            return pref_dark;
-        }
-        function set_theme_pref(dark = false) {
-            localStorage.setItem('prefers-color', dark ? "dark" : "light");
-        }
-        function toggle_theme_pref() {
-            set_theme_pref(!get_theme_pref());
-        }
-        function update_theme() {
-            if (get_theme_pref()) {
-                document.body.classList.add("dark");
-            } else {
-                document.body.classList.remove("dark");
-            }
-        }
-        function update_theme_toggle() {
-            let toggle = document.getElementById('theme-toggle');
-            if (toggle) {
-                toggle.innerHTML = get_theme_pref() ? '☀️' : '🌙';
-            }
-        }
-
-        update_theme();
-    </script>
-    <nav>{% block nav %}{% endblock %}</nav>
+  <body>
     <aside>{% block aside %}{% endblock %}</aside>
     <article>
         {%- block content %}<h1>override the content block in a template</h1>{% endblock -%}
diff --git a/templates/index.html b/templates/index.html
index f0fd607..0aafa0b 100644
--- a/templates/index.html
+++ b/templates/index.html
@@ -20,14 +20,9 @@
     {% endfor %}
 {% endblock %}
 
-{% block nav %}
-    <span>{{ config.extra.index_nav_text | default(value="") }}</span>
-    <noscript id="theme-toggle-placeholder"></noscript>
-{% endblock nav %}
-
 {% block footer %}
     <span>
-        &copy; {{ now() | date(format='%Y') }}
+        {{ now() | date(format='%Y') }}
         {% if section.extra.author %}
         {{ section.extra.author }}
         {% elif config.extra.author %}
@@ -45,12 +40,7 @@
     {% endif %}
     {% if section.subsections %}
         {{ config.extra.subsections_string | default(value="Subsections:") }}
-        <ul>
-            {% for sub in section.subsections %}
-                {% set dom = sub | trim_end_matches(pat="/_index.md") %}
-                <li><a class="stealth" href="{{ dom }}">{{ dom }}</a></li>
-            {% endfor %}
-        </ul>
+        {{ macros::subsection_tree(subs=section.subsections) }}
     {% endif %}
     {% if config.extra.xscratch_debug_info %}
     <span><strong>Debug info:</strong></span>
diff --git a/templates/macros.html b/templates/macros.html
index cb02c69..f63822e 100644
--- a/templates/macros.html
+++ b/templates/macros.html
@@ -44,4 +44,28 @@
             {{ thing }}
         {% endif %}
     </div>
-{% endmacro  %}
\ No newline at end of file
+{% endmacro debug %}
+
+{% macro parent_tree(ancestors) %}
+    <div class="sections">
+        {% for sect in ancestors %}
+            {% set sect = get_section(path=sect) %}
+            <span style="padding-left: {{ loop.index0 }}em;">
+                <a href="{{ sect.permalink }}" class="stealth">
+                    {{ sect.title }}/
+                </a>
+            </span>
+        {% endfor %}    
+    </div>
+{% endmacro section_tree %}
+
+{% macro subsection_tree(subs) %}
+    <ul>
+        {% for sub in subs %}
+            {% set sub = get_section(path=sub) %}
+            <li><a href="{{ sub.permalink }}" class="stealth">
+                {{ sub.title }}
+            </a></li>
+        {% endfor %}
+    </ul>
+{% endmacro subsection_tree %}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/templates/page.html b/templates/page.html
index 9cdadf8..6bd3969 100644
--- a/templates/page.html
+++ b/templates/page.html
@@ -15,17 +15,14 @@
     {% endif %}
 {% endblock %}
 
-{% block nav %}
-    <span><a class="stealth" href="..">../{{ page.slug }}</a></span>
-    <noscript id="theme-toggle-placeholder"></noscript>
-{% endblock %}
-
 {% block content %}
     <h1 id="page-title">{{ page.title }}</h1>
     {{ page.content | safe }}
 {% endblock %}
 
 {% block aside %}
+    {{ macros::parent_tree(ancestors=page.ancestors) }}
+
     {% if page.date -%}
     <span id="page-publish-date">Published: <time>{{ page.date }}</time>{% if page.updated %}, Updated: <time>{{ page.updated }}</time>{% endif %}</span>
     {%- endif %}
@@ -51,7 +48,7 @@
 
 {% block footer %}
 <span>
-    &copy; {{ now() | date(format='%Y') }}
+    {{ now() | date(format='%Y') }}
     {% if page.extra.author %}
     {{ page.extra.author }}
     {% elif config.extra.author %}
diff --git a/templates/section.html b/templates/section.html
index 2d0cd5c..fbb25f0 100644
--- a/templates/section.html
+++ b/templates/section.html
@@ -20,15 +20,9 @@
     {% endfor %}
 {% endblock %}
 
-{% block nav %}
-    {% set dom = section.relative_path | trim_end_matches(pat="/_index.md") %}
-    <span><a class="stealth" href="..">../{{ dom }}</a></span>
-    <noscript id="theme-toggle-placeholder"></noscript>
-{% endblock %}
-
 {% block footer %}
 <span>
-    &copy; {{ now() | date(format='%Y') }}
+    {{ now() | date(format='%Y') }}
     {% if section.extra.author %}
     {{ section.extra.author }}
     {% elif config.extra.author %}
@@ -38,6 +32,8 @@
 {% endblock %}
 
 {% block aside %}
+    {{ macros::parent_tree(ancestors=section.ancestors) }}
+
     {% if section.title %}
     <h1>{{ section.title }}</h1>
     {% endif %}
@@ -46,12 +42,7 @@
     {% endif %}
     {% if section.subsections %}
         {{ config.extra.subsections_string | default(value="Subsections:") }}
-        <ul>
-            {% for sub in section.subsections %}
-                {% set dom = sub | trim_end_matches(pat="/_index.md") %}
-                <li><a class="stealth" href="{{ dom }}">{{ dom }}</a></li>
-            {% endfor %}
-        </ul>
+        {{ macros::subsection_tree(subs=section.subsections) }}
     {% endif %}
 
     {% if config.extra.xscratch_debug_info %}
diff --git a/theme.toml b/theme.toml
index b902a2c..7a1650e 100644
--- a/theme.toml
+++ b/theme.toml
@@ -7,14 +7,6 @@ min_version = "0.4.0"
 # An optional live demo URL
 demo = ""
 
-# Any variable there can be overridden in the end user `config.toml`
-# You don't need to prefix variables by the theme name but as this will
-# be merged with user data, some kind of prefix or nesting is preferable
-# Use snake_casing to be consistent with the rest of Zola
-[extra]
-
-default_dark = false
-
 # The theme author info: you!
 [author]
 name = "xenua"