One useful thing you can add to your profile page, or any page that you create in Mahara, is a text box. These are extremely useful for giving meaning to your page. You can include far more than text in the text box. You will use it to put in descriptions or snippets of information that help you to structure your page in a more logical way.

In the following Time for action creating a text box for your profile page section, you will look at how you add a text box to your profile page. Along the way, for the first time, you will encounter Mahara's drag-and-drop user interface for adding blocks to pages — this is very exciting! One of the things that makes Mahara stand out is its flexible framework for creating pages. It is extremely intuitive as you will see, and reflects in some ways how you would create a poster display — taking bits of information such as text and pictures, moving them around until you are happy with their location, and then sticking them in place. Of course, the advantage is that, with Mahara, they aren't stuck down forever with glue and can be repositioned whenever or wherever you like.