Later you will set up your own profile page—showing yourself and your knowledge off to others in an attractively personalized way. However, before you do that, you need to add some profile information. Your profile information is the first example we will see of "stuff" that you can add to Mahara. When we say stuff we simply mean information, or items that can then be viewed later or arranged into web pages, which we will see when we look at your profile page.

You are now going to set up some profile information as "stuff" that you can select from and use. We will look at three types of profile information—your profile itself, profile icons, along with your resumé, goals, and skills.