Mirai Gaia Migration

dannychoo.com was thrown together while learning php, mysql, apache, css, jquery, seo and anything else that I was required to learn to build a publishing community site. Learned most of this from google sensei and http://www.w3schools.com/

While the current platform has served me well, its been buckling under its own weight due to the increasing traffic.
The migration to the new Mirai Gaia platform is near completion and out the window will go nearly 10 years of code.
figure.fm runs on Mirai Gaia and while its had a few hiccups, its much more stable and scalable than dannychoo.com which has much better publishing, community and e-commerce features too.

Most of the migration work up until now has been database import scripts and flickr API work. We aim to get the staging server up and running today. Is being in a rush to launch so we are going to release it on the figure.fm theme and then change the CSS after.

If you have any design ideas for the top page then feel free to leave link to a mockup or post it.
The top page needs:-
-500px wide photo article column
-puchi blurb chat
-figure.fm/member posts column
-ad inventory
-space for Mirai, Haruka and Kanata

Folks who submit ideas which are used in the final design will go in the contributors page.

The screenshot you see is of dannychoo.com many moons ago and taken from the History of dannychoo.com article.

So, over the next few days you may see dannychoo.com going fishing from time to time which means that we are close to complete migration. Keep an eye on my twitter for updates.

Forgot to mention that you should not change your password until the site is up and running on Mirai Gaia next week.