Introduction

The saying goes "You can't tell a book by its cover" but there's a lot to be said about the way "packaging" affects perception. In this chapter, we will explore several creative ways for packaging your writing. Many of the recipes use journals in ways you might not expect.

Mahara allows the creation of an unlimited number of journals, and journals can be used for a variety of purposes. The advantage of using a journal for reflections on artifacts, and for simply creating artifacts of writing, is the ability to use and reuse a single post, a group of posts, or an entire journal, for many different types of Pages. And, if you delete the Pages, your writing will still be saved in your journal. This is not the case with adding writing to a Page using a textbox; if you delete the Page, the textbox and all it contains is deleted as well. Additionally, the text in a textbox cannot be repurposed.

Nevertheless, there are times when textboxes in Pages are the perfect venue for your writing...