This chapter represents a great percentage of the overall work required to get your site looking like you want it. Once you are finished with this section, you will hopefully be satisfied that you are well on your way to deploying a working site, which will hopefully contribute to increased revenue through instilling confidence with the site's professionalism and design, as well as providing a pleasing environment in which customers can make purchases.
The knowledge gained from working with images and HTML, as well as the application of the design principles discussed 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 design, as well as having to work closely with GIF images, will free you up to create more ambitious graphical user interfaces in the future.