If you have a large site, it gets tedious having to update every page when you make a small change to something that appears on every page. The two areas I run across the most like this are info that goes in the <head> (such as css and js links) and navigation menus.
Depending on your hosting setup, you should be able to use .htaccess to set up your server to execute PHP in html pages. Once that is done, PHP includes make it very easy to update things sitewide.
For example, in the settings tab there is a box called "header." For every page, in the header section, add
<?php include('includes/inc_head.php'); ?>
Once you export your site, create a folder called "includes" (no quotes), and create a file called "inc_head.php" (no quotes) in that folder. Now add whatever you want to inc_head.php (such as MB <head> code, Google Analytics code, etc.), and it will be included in the <head> section of your page(s).
You can do the same for MB files. Put the <head> parts of your MB export in inc_head.php (see above). For the body part of the MB export, add an html element on every page where the menu should appear. In the html element, put
<?php include('includes/inc_menu.php'); ?>
In the includes folder you created earlier, add a file called "inc_menu.php" (no quotes). Put the <body> part of the MB export in the file inc_menu.php. Your menu now appears on every page that has that html element, but you only had to add the actual menu html one time. Later, if you update your menu, just replace the code in inc_menu.php and it is updated across the entire site.
Being able to do this is contingent on you being able to change your server to run php code in html pages. Check with your web host about how to do it and be sure to test it before going live. If you need help, my contact information is below.
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