For everyone out there that's ever tried to take on a "web application" project, you quickly come to realize that there's right and wrong ways to go about managing the project - and not just PHP projects either. All web-based projects require some extra steps to get the job done. Thankfully, there's sites like Sitepoint there to offer some guidance.

In their latest, Web Application Development - A Guide to Success, they give you some good steps on how to plan out a project - things like: Envisioning the nature and direction of the project, and testing, support and stability. There's all sorts of other goodies in this piece on more topics than just the beginning steps too - all the way out to developing support plan for the future.

Since there's constantly more and more people flooding the contract market, it's more important these days than ever to make sure you're doing it right. If clients like the way you do business, they'll recommend you. If not - well, that's one of the wost things you can do.