The previous chapter focused on fairly complex additions to the site. While these are certainly important, not all additions need to be large and powerful in order to add value. There are plenty of neat little applications that you should consider implementing in order to tweak the final appearance and functionality of your online store. Like any physical product, a car for instance, you can look at the development of your online store as being more or less completed, with the engine, chassis, and body all in place; it's just a case of adding airbags, windscreen wipers, cup holders, and so on.
As you might expect, over the course of osCommerce's lifetime a huge number of scripts have been written to perform the multitude of tasks each and every store owner has required. Obviously we can't hope to cover all of those in this chapter, but you already know how to make use of the community in order to search for what you want. You also have a good idea how to...