I set off trying to show my preference for the Freehand over the Flexible blocks. However, the wheels fell off reasonably quickly, and I changed to trying to document my shortcomings. I then lost the will to live and went hell for leather to just get the damn thing over and done with.

I still prefer Freehand as they offer more flexibility than the rigid Flexible blocks [A rethink on naming might be a start =D].

Still, I was plagued with objects being accidentally taken out of a block and promptly vanishing. Some things are annoyingly linked to all variants, whereas others are not. One that occurred several times, the blocks slipped out of order between variants. As in Main block in position 1 and block in position 2 became position 2 and position 1 in the variant. Moving block 1 back to the top changed it to position 2 in the variant, and a so on and so forth.

In short. It took me WAY too long to create these 2 pages and I should probably do more so i can work out the foibles and become familiar with the way blocks work.

Anyway, back to the point.
@markhallcohen asked about padding. Using the Freehand blocks you eliminate the need for that.
Adjusting the height f a block is easily achieved by selecting the background and adjusting the height. If you use a Flexible block, all sorts of squishing and squashing occurs.

The project file is here, have a fiddle with the backgrounds in the individual blocks to see how you can alter the height. If you end up with a gap between 2 blocks, just select the lower block and give it a Y coordinate of 0. It will snap to the block above.

>>> Mark Cohen.xar <<<