Web Worker Daily

Quick Web Sites – There are lots of online tools to help you put together a web site quickly. The latest I’ve run across is Tank, which does indeed seem to streamline the process nicely. After an instant signup process you can create a new site, choosing between various canned templates (business, personal, and so on) or starting from scratch. Sites are composed of a hierarchy of pages, any number of post-oriented sections (blogs or journals) and any number of photo albums. You can change the formatting and edit text easily in their tabbed UI, with the markup using a very simple text-based engine. It’s possible to bang together something that doesn’t look half-bad quite quickly.

Your sites run on a subdomain of withtank.com for free for as long as you want to keep them in development mode. If you get to the point where you want to move to your own domain, or need more than 10MB of storage or 100MB of bandwidth, you need to move to a paid plan. Tank itself is under rapid development with new features coming along at a good clip.

Mozy Goes Enterprise – EMC, which owns the Mozy backup service, has introduced Mozy Enterprise, a high-end version aimed at corporate network administrators. It’s still offsite backup, but the Enterprise version offers better encryption, hot backups of Exchange and SQL Server, open and locked file support, and a central administrative console. For pricing you’ll need to talk to your EMC rep.

Passwords the Old-Fashioned Way – Can’t decide between browser-based password management and dedicated password programs? There’s another alternative: the Internet Password Organizer, a 5.5×8 inch spiral-bound book designed especially for recording account login information, as well as information about your ISP, network, and software licenses.