This chapter represents a great percentage of the overall work required to get your site looking as you want it. Once you are finished with this section, you will hopefully be satisfied that you are well on your way to a working site. A site, which will contribute to increased revenue through customers’ confidence in the site’s professionalism and design, as well as providing a pleasing environment in which they can make purchases.

The knowledge gained from working with images and HTML will help not only with your osCommerce site, but with any other web-based application that you end up working with. Having gained an appreciation for the various different types of customization, as well as having to work closely with GIF images, will free you up to create more ambitious graphical user interfaces in the future.

Now that you have the necessary information to make your site look professional, we need to actually make it professional. When I talk about professional, I mean getting paid, so let’s take a look at how to deal with tax, payment, and shipping issues.