This does require adding something at the server level, but does not require users to know anything very special and is a lot easier then creating HTML blocks.
This is a brief video I had made last week:
The distinctiveness of this is a 'single section' format as well that does NOT display the section 0 material on every page.
This also keeps things simple: one layer of navigation.
My ideal is two. Side and top:
================PAGE 1==PAGE 2==PAGE 3==PAGE 4=============
.MENU: |
.. |
.Item 1 |
.Item 2 |
*Item 3*|
.Item 4 |
But I have not seen a simple version of this.
I can give a login to my Moodle site if anyone wants to lok at this in practice.