I might be one of the oldest geeks you will meet. I have been a desktop user since 1988 when I first saw an Apple/Mac producing an invoice form. I joined the internet crowd as soon as it was publicly available when AOL first connected in 1994. From the day I got connected, I was hooked. I knew this was the next really big thing!

I began building websites a number of years ago when a small non-profit group needed a website. Producing a website that the whole world could see really got me hooked! Photography, graphic arts, retail selling and marketing, it all comes together on the Internet! But as a relatively new communication media I found many people do not have the over all understanding or skills to effectively use this information super highway.

To gain these skills myself, I returned to college in my mid fifty's to study technology. I studied business, webmastering, internet technologies, networks, network security, graphic arts and Linux administration. I finally attained a certification in Linux administration and two degrees in networking technologies. By then most people my age were planning retirement, not going to school. I only met one other student older than me in five years.

However, most companies continue to think of technology as a young man's field. I did find a job as a Linux network administrator but the company didn't follow though with their plan to implement selling the software that ran on Linux servers. Even though I was a Linux adminstrator, I was still fascinated with websites. I didn't make working websites a career until two business men approached me about helping them with that side of their business. Two years later, the web work subsidiary was separated off into its own business and "Kratos Websites" was born.

Website and Web Based Applications Hand Coding
During my years with the parent company, I was tutored in web programming by a thirty year veteran programmer. Progamming web servers was the next logical step in producing both static and database driven dymanic websites and web based applications.

Writing computer code by hand has been the way of programmers since the 60's. No code generating software has ever truly taken the place of knowing the code. We believe that there is no such thing as a professional web designer or application engineer who does not know the real code that makes it work. In a phrase: pretty is not the same as useful or functional. Most website owners do not fully utilize the power of the web or utilize their websites for marketing due to emphasizing pretty over function.

We hand write the HTML and PHP server scripts to build for each client and situation, a unique and dynamic website and web presence. Most of our custome add ons are stand alone applications with a very easy "upload-n-go" installation. see the "hosted projects page" at the bottom.

Christian Projects Hosting

Christian projects came about more like life happens than a plan. At the request of serval saints, I reassembled a Biblical Greek class that I had taught over 25 years ago but had put it away due to a lack of students in my area. However, the Internet happended in the mean time and it seemed approporiate to post the new class on a website. I registered a URL koinebible.net, for it and assembled a group of students. We recorded on video the sessions and posted them on line.

A wonderful Christian lady wanted a place to post her wedding video and her piano concerts. I developed such a place for friends sharing with friends and called it THE HUB. I used it myself as a place to post video projects as I learned more about video shooting and editing with a Flip Mino camera.

Then another Christian believer with a message, "No More Bondage!" wanted a website to post his Bible teachings. That became ksradcliffe.com but the teachings and notes for them could only be downloaded. I already had a domain just for hosting sub-domains for any purpose and one already built for multimedia so I set up an MP3 player on THE HUB.

Now another project is in the works. The next one will be an on line seminar about Biblical Interepretation principles. It is based on the concept that all scripture will agree with itself if read in correct contexts. The URL for this new project is straightbible.com . This one will also be taught with video but it will be offered at the same time in audio format.