I have a friend who approached me recently for an all singing, all dancing website with a budget that couldn’t even raise a tune.

Anyway, not a project for The Escape, I produced it as a favour with the help of another friend.

It just goes to show what you can do to create a content-management system with Wordpress.

CBS Recruit does just that, allowing my friend to update his case studies and jobs, keeping his website relevant for less than £1000. I am now trying to teach him the fine art of content creation.

There are a whole host of cheaper ways of doing this of course if you can keep your website structure simple in Wordpress, using off-the-shelf templates.

Then you have Joomla (I’m not a big fan of this to be honest) or plain old blogging.

If it was me setting up a new business and I didn’t have a budget, I would actually go for a Blog.

Wordpress, hosted on your domain name. You need a little knowledge of how to do this but it’s all out there if you are a bit savvy.

I reckon the cost of a .co.uk domain is £2.99 for the year, Wordpress hosting I have found for $70 per year (£35). A free wordpress template and you have a web platform for less than £50 per year.

And, coming back to the situation with my friend’s website… it’s the content that is the real investment required.