October 23, 2003

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Provincial Site #3: Agusan del Norte

Poor Agusan del Norte. Nothing really much going on their site, plus they don't even have their own url.

I was kinda hoping I wouldn't run into a website whose aesthetics would choose such novelty-ornamental typefaces, but that's hoping for too much. The real angle here is that their governor is: a. not bad looking b. looks like she's barely 30 c. is wearing a pair of jeans d. has highlights on her hair. Her photograph is conveniently splashed on the home page, much larger than any photos of the 2,590 sq.km province.

In case you've forgotten your 3rd Grade Social Studies, the capital of Agusan del Norte is Butuan, which has a better website.

The nice thing about the website is that it has a section on Special Areas of Development, which is useful for someone who wants to, say, see about the feasibility of a banana farm in the province. One can also browse city by city quite easily.

Alas, there doesn't seem to be much action on this website (the last update was THREE years ago), and for all I know, they have a new governor and have simply neglected to update their website. It's all pretty flat. But a visitor tends to differ:

ITS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC SITE, IT FEELS LIKE YOU`RE NEVER AWAY FROM HOME. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
I guess if you miss home like I do, you'd be thrilled by just about anything.

Comments

perhaps the commenter was judging the site based on third world (agusan) standards three years ago too.

here's my hometown, promising website in terms of design and content. most links are under construction.
http://dumangas.tripod.com

UPLB 1991

Maybe other obscure Philippine provinces have websites too, like Aurora and Sultan Kudarat.

If they do, I'll get to them!!