Flagship build
The Christchurch, Dublin 8
Third Barrel Brewing needed a site for their three-floor pub on Dublin's High Street that felt like the place itself — warm, confident, not trying too hard. ProVibed designed, built and deployed it, with everything the owner needs to run day-to-day sitting behind a simple dashboard, not a developer's inbox.
01 / At a glance
What the site actually does.
- Live, self-updating tap list
- Owner-managed bookings & events
- Ten seasonal theme switches
- Web menu synced to a printable PDF
- Zero tracking, zero cookies
- Zero monthly hosting cost
02 / The brief
A pub site that runs itself, not one nobody touches again.
A pub website usually means one of two things: a static page nobody's touched since launch, or a booking app nobody wanted to download. The Christchurch needed neither — a site that shows what's actually happening on each floor right now, and that Third Barrel can run themselves, indefinitely, without calling a developer.
03 / The build
Four things worth showing.
A pub built by a brewery
Most pub sites bury the story on an about page nobody clicks. This one leads with it: Third Barrel Brewing opened The Christchurch in 2016 as their own front room, three floors at 13 High Street, Merchants Quay — and the homepage says so before it says anything else.
A live tap list, straight from the taps
Ask any pub what's hardest to keep a website honest about, and it's the taps — they turn over weekly, sometimes daily. So nobody has to update it by hand. The draught line pulls live from Untappd: tap a keg, kick a keg, and the site already knows, with brewery, style, ABV and rating shown for every beer pouring right now.
Bookings, protected properly
No CAPTCHA to fight with — an invisible spam check instead. Every request notifies the pub the second it's sent, and the booking data itself is write-only from the public side: it can't be read back out except through a secure staff login. That's an architectural decision, not a checkbox.
Ten looks, one design
St Patrick's Day, Christmas, Halloween, match days for rugby, GAA and football. The owner flips a switch and the whole site changes mood in seconds — the design underneath never moves, and nothing breaks by picking the wrong theme.
Nothing tracked, nothing sold
No cookies beyond what's strictly necessary, no analytics, no ad scripts. The privacy notice actually explains what's collected and why — not three pages of boilerplate nobody reads.
A menu that's always current
Nobody wants a menu that's a photo of a laminated sheet from three years ago. The Christchurch's menu lives in a database the owner edits from a dashboard — change a price at 4pm, and it's live on the site and ready to print behind the bar by 4:01.
What's on, every night of the week
Trad session Thursdays. Live music Fridays. The big screen for every match day. A monthly quiz with a quiz master who shows no mercy. Private hire of any floor for something bigger. None of it needs a poster taped to the door — it's all on one page, pulled from the same backend as the menu and the tap list.
04 / How it's run
Built to have nothing to break.
Most pub websites rot slowly: five plugins, a theme abandoned by its developer, an update that quietly breaks the booking form. This one has nothing to rot. Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript — no framework, no build step — hosted free on Cloudflare Pages, deploying automatically from the code repository. Push to the main branch, and it's live in minutes.
The owner controls hosting, database, domain and deployment independently — nobody else holds the keys. Day-to-day changes happen from a dashboard: a price, an event, a tap swap. Anything bigger happens by asking Claude Code for it in plain English — it edits the code, commits, and the site redeploys itself. No developer on call, no retainer, no invoice for a Tuesday-afternoon typo fix.
05 / The result
What changed.
- No more calling a developer for a price change
- No monthly hosting bill
- No spam getting through the booking form
- No stale menu, ever
- No tracking scripts, no cookie banner
- No plugin that can quietly break it
06 / About ProVibed
We build websites for businesses that want something real.
Not a template with a logo swap. We start by understanding what makes a business distinctive, and finish by handing over something the owner can run without us.
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