Designing and implementing your product data structure is one of the most vital jobs involved in setting up your osCommerce store and hopefully you now find it quite easy. You should feel pretty relaxed at this stage because you have almost all your data-related needs sorted out, or at the very least, understand exactly how to deal with your data.

From this chapter, you have learned that categorizing your products and setting their attributes is not quite as straightforward as it may seem on the surface. Provided you think before you act, you will be just fine with regards to sorting out which attributes apply to which products. Of course, dealing with data can be fairly tricky even if you have a good structure, and we have seen how osCommerce helps us handle data updates and changes by giving us various options such as linking or duplicating, or warning us if we are trying to delete something with dependencies.

With that said, it is time to give our site a full facelift and nose job. The next chapter talks about customization, and it is here that we will finally discuss how to properly deal with the images you want to put up on your site.