Fly-Belts

Glamourous Traveller wears Fly-Belts

Fly-Belts Cabin Crew — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:52:23 +0000

Glamourous Traveller has performed a deep exploration of our concept by testing all its aspects : look and feel, weight, variety of styles, downsides and overall.

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A great conversation starter for Off the Cuff

Fly-Belts Cabin Crew — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:38:26 +0000

Off the Cuff loved the way how we converted the ubiquitous airline “lift to release” seat belt buckle into a clever belt for your trousers. Of course, they underline the iconic aspect and how Fly-Belts are not meant for job interviews, even if it’s for an airline !

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Virgin Galactic invites you into space

Fly-Belts Cabin Crew — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 15:08:42 +0000

The first civil flight to space will take-off by the end of the year. For this, the british billionnaire Richard Branson created Virgin Galactic, a new airline that will offer orbital flights, above the stratosphere at more than 300 000 feets !

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Top 10 – Fictional and made-up airlines

Fly-Belts Cabin Crew — Fri, 30 May 2014 16:56:15 +0000

Just for our frequent travelers, Fly-Belts has gathered the most notorious of fictional and made-up airlines used in movies and TV shows. From zombies, snakes, mysterious islands, terrorists,… danger is great and we love to see our heroes at 30 000 feets.

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Fly-Belts quoted in a famous tech newsletter

Fly-Belts Cabin Crew — Tue, 27 May 2014 14:14:22 +0000

Today, the subject was about unusual products sold online and they wrote a review about Fly-Belts, explaining our original concept, how the idea came by “borrowing” aircraft seat belts on regular commercial flights.

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Delta Airlines retires the last DC-9 commercial flight

Fly-Belts Cabin Crew — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 00:30:33 +0000

Delta Airlines retired today the oldest plane in U.S. fleet, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9. The route was linking Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport MSP to Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport ATL. Built in 1965, the aircraft had 65 passenger seats and will now join the annals airline archaeology and aviation musems. This is the way of many used airliners.

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A Jumbo Jet compared to a small 737

Fly-Belts Cabin Crew — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 23:33:40 +0000

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Fly-Belts, Made in For U

Fly-Belts Cabin Crew — Mon, 27 May 2013 20:55:14 +0000

Made in For U is a great website concept where you can find products made by young and innovative entrepreneurs. Whenever you need to buy a present but no idea where to start to, Made in For U is… made for you. The platform works as a great creative generator : high tech goodies, colored underwear, fine delis or aircraft seat belts redesigned as fashion accessories ! Any taste, any style will find its paradise as the choices are countless.

Fly-Belts works with them as a partner, they have introduced our products into their modern environment. They also have a blog, managed by a team that we had the pleasure to meet, and have rewarded us a post exploring our brand and products. We thank them a lot for their support and cooperation.

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Fly-Belts but enhanced : our new website

Fly-Belts Cabin Crew — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:09:02 +0000

We are proud to launch the new version of our website !

After a few months of development and content integration, the version 2 of Fly-Belts’ website is finally live ! It has been crafted to reflect more our original products : travel wear, but also fashion accessories. We hope you like our work, we tried as much as possible to enhance the user experience. The environment fits what Fly-Belts stands for : a concept for frequent flyers, accessible to anyone who loves travel all around the world.

Content

The product pictures has been completely remade from scratch. The main weakness of our previous website was the fact that only product pictures were shown. It was hard for our visitors to get at the first look that our seat belts are made to be worn on pants and jeans. So we organized a shooting with professionals : photographer, graphic designer, models and make-up artist. The idea was to take some shots of the belts worn on real model and to add a travel/aviation environment. For more info about the talents who worked with Fly-Belts, please visit our Credits section.

The content from the previous website has been edited and is now more concise. Blog and shop sections are now in the same universe, it’s easier to get more info about what we do and what we love.

Graphic work

To make the navigation more fluent, the design has been completely upgraded to 2013 web standards. The site is responsive and can be easily seen on many devices : smartphones, tablets, or any screen size possible.
You do not need to create an account anymore to order our products. Fill directly your billing and shipping informations and proceed to payment.

Development

The first website was build with Prestashop, an ecommerce CMS quickly growing since the past few years. For the blog section, we used a separate directory with WordPress CMS. It was quite hard to manage both site administrations, and handle all the changes that had to be duplicated each time. Moreover, Prestashop is quite complex to modify and adapt if you’re not a developer. Or if you have a restricted budget, as you need to buy much of the additional but basic plugins.
Knowing WordPress by playing a bit with it, Fly-Belts decided to take its emancipation and to build an entire new website with WordPress. For this we’ve found a great theme, Bretheon, which helped us applying our concept into a simple and efficient website skeleton. For the ecommerce functionnalities, we use a newcomer but with a great potential : Woocommerce, which is currently doing a revolution with the ecommerce web applications.

Past websites

Fly-Belts and its websites is a long story. The origin of the project dates back in India, where we started looking for a freelance to host and build us a first draft of what would become our main platform. This is what he came up with, what our website could have looked like :

So we decided to consult elsewhere. A friend who runs a small web agency in India, Avenues Consult, and he accepted to achieve our project for quite reasonnable costs. They build us our first platform, running on Prestashop. This CMS is supposed to be quite simple to use, and the results on many small other websites were amazing. However, if you’re not an expert, it is complex to manage and to perform changes if you’re not a developer. The website looked like this :

Homepage

Shop Page

Product Page

Content Page

Today, we’re proud to offer you an enhanced environment for our original aircraft seat belts redesigned as fashion accessories.

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Parallel take-off

Fly-Belts Cabin Crew — Sat, 18 May 2013 21:21:08 +0000

Two Boeing 737 taking-off at the same time from Beijing Capital International Airport PEK. Both flying Air China colors, the aircrafts are in a perfect parallel axis : the passengers can almost say hi to each other ! This perfect shot shows the airplanes as a dancing ballet.

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