About the Project
Ocean Fish Bar & Restaurant is a well-established, family-run fish and chip restaurant and takeaway on St. Peters Avenue in Cleethorpes. Trading for over 17 years with a 5-star food hygiene rating and winner of the Good Chippy Award 2023, they needed a website that matched their reputation — fast, clean, and easy to use on mobile — without the overhead of WordPress.
The previous site was scrapped entirely. The rebuild is bespoke PHP on the LocalWebsCoder CMS: no page builders, no plugins, no bloat.
What We Built
Custom Design
A warm, navy and gold brand identity carried through the full site — prominent hero with the restaurant name and call to action, mobile-first layout, accessible typography, and fast-loading pages without a single third-party stylesheet dependency.
Pages & Content
- Home — Hero, About, Offers & Promotions cards, Reviews, Visit Us section, and Contact form all on one scrollable page
- Menu — Full food menu with categories, pricing, and dietary information
- Privacy Policy & Terms — Legally compliant, CMS-generated
- Click & Collect — Prominent CTAs linking to the external ordering platform
Contact Form
A clean, reliable contact form with enquiry notifications sent via PHPMailer over SMTP. All submissions are stored and viewable through the admin panel.
Admin Panel
A bespoke password-protected admin area for the site owner:
- Dashboard — at-a-glance view of recent enquiries and site activity
- Enquiries inbox — view, read, and manage all contact form submissions
- Security overview — banned IPs and attack log
Network Security Integration
The site is connected to the LocalWebsCoder network security hub. Any spam IP or email detected here is automatically shared across all LWC sites, and bans from other sites are pulled in and enforced within 15 minutes via a local cache.
Business Details
- Address: 50 St. Peters Avenue, Cleethorpes, DN35 8HP
- Seats: Up to 130 covers, fully licensed bar
- Hours: Mon–Sat, 11:30am – 7:00pm
- Hygiene Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5 stars)
- Award: Good Chippy Award 2023 winner
Tech Stack
- CMS: LocalWebsCoder CMS (bespoke flat-file PHP)
- Frontend: Vanilla JS, custom CSS — no frameworks, no build tools
- Email: PHPMailer over SMTP — reliable, not reliant on
mail() - Security: LW Network Security — IP banning, email banning, honeypot, rate limiting, SQLi/XSS detection
- Storage: Flat-file JSON — enquiries, rate limits, ban lists; no database required
- Hosting: Managed UK hosting — SSL, uptime monitoring, backups
Result
A fast, professional website that gives a long-standing local business a modern online presence — driving footfall through search visibility, making it easy for customers to find opening hours and the menu, and keeping the contact form clean with zero spam reaching the inbox.
