About

Black Tar was founded 1997 in Stavanger, Norway by Vidar Andersen.

The philosophy of Black Tar has always been simple; We listen very carefully to our customers, their users and their customers. We strive to be forever humble, to engage in honest conversation and seek to learn, learn, learn.

We believe in the good conversation. An open minded, transparent and honest, genuinely interested and down to earth approach is the key to our success.

The mutual trust gained, our reliability and your satisfaction is how we define and gauge success.

We believe that the combination of good usability and great visual design is a prerequisite for a successful product and a gratifying user experience.

We apply heuristic testing, scientific methodology and a user centered approach. We combine the latest in UX research and best practices based on our experience.

We strongly support open standards, interoperability and open source software in general.

The Founder

Vidar Andersen Founded Black Tar in 1997

Clients since include everything from governments, global corporations and educational institutions

He is one of the Plone founders and a member of the Plone Foundation

Vidar Andersen started out in Norway as a Film Science Major, dropping out in 1997 to plunge head first into the then relatively un-chartered territory of web based applications and services.

Since then he has been involved in a variety of web based projects from e-learning, commerce, intranets, portals, and content management systems (CMS), CRM and ERP to games, privileged to work with nationals, multinationals, private and public institutions; NGOs, governments, government agencies and global iconic brands.

He co-founded the popular open source Plone CMS in 1999 with Alan Runyan and Alexander Limi.

After over 13 years of bubbles, booms, bulls, bears and busts - Black Tar and Vidar Andersen are still here.

Vidar maintains a sporadic personal blog at http://stopmebeforeiblogagain.com twitters at http://twitter.com/blacktar and can be readily friended at http://www.facebook.com/Blacktar.