Is there any particular reason for you not using iframes for the menu? Unless you've automated the process of updating the menu on every single page (which I did before I switched to an iframe), it sounds troublesome.
I did automate it with a script. I cannot use the iframe because then I would lose any indication of the current page (I could fix that with JS that would modify the iframe/notify it of current page so that it would then replace a link to the page I'm on with normal text but I don't want to use JS).
Is the part about the link colour being your current hair colour still true? You seem to have removed this remark.
...Finally bothered to add a sitewide changelog to the site menu. Next objective: rewriting main page, because there's dumb stuff in there
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