About Black Tar

Black Tar provides consulting services related to usability, analysis, design, architecture and development of web-based solutions and services.

In other words, we can help you build relevant stuff on the Internet that actually works well for real people.

The company was founded in Norway by Vidar Andersen in 1997. Vidar is also one of the founders of the Plone Content Management System.

About Plone

Plone is a leading open source Content Management System that balances out-of-the-box ease of use with powerful functionality. Thousands of organizations around the world including Marriott, eBay, NASA, and Oxfam use Plone to deliver websites that mature with their organizations' changing needs. Plone is available in over 35 languages, can be deployed on all platforms and is not tied to a singular vendor. The Plone ecosystem is composed of thousands of developers, over 50 consulting companies, user groups in over a dozen cities, several books and a 24-hour support forum.

For the technically inclined, the Plone CMS is based on the Zope Application Server and the Python Programming Language.

If you are new to Plone please visit Plone.org for further information.

About Black Tar and You

Over the years, Black Tar has worked together with small national companies, NGOs, governments and big global corporations developing, improving and innovating in the fields of content management systems, intranets, extranets and custom web based applications and services.

The Royal Norwegian Government, Shell, Esso, Statoil, VOX (The Norwegian National Institute for Adult Learning), Læringssenteret (The Norwegian Board of Education), TeeKay Shipping (one of the largest oil and gas shipping companies in the world), Verdens Gang (the largest tabloid newspaper in Norway), Stavanger Aftenblad (largest regional newspaper), Bergens Tidende (largest regional newspaper), Adresseavisen (largest regional newspaper), Simula Research Laboratory (the home of the SIMULA programming language), ICO Inc. and Jarn (formerly known as Plone Solutions) are some of the national and international corporations and institutions we have been privileged to work with.

Please feel free to let us know what's on your mind. We look forward to get to know you.