Installation and/or upgrades for Ringtail should be about as few steps as possible to allow a new author to quickly get his or her site set up. While the software is very simple as-is, there are one or two steps were a user may run into trouble. The installation process should be as simple as simply uploading the software to the author's own website and copying their comics to the appropriate directory. Any configuration for administrator username/password would be disabled until a blank config.php file is manually created in the directory.

As always, the actual placement and look of the site is up to the author and displaying the requisite elements (the comic image itself, for example) would be as simple as including the main Ringtail file and calling a function or printing a variable somewhere in the HTML code.

Ex.:

<? include("ringtail.php"); ?>
<!-- Insert whatever HTML goes here for the website itself. -->
<? comic(); ?>
<!-- Insert the rest of the site HTML. -->

The comic() function automatically spits out the image tag to display the current day's comic. Other things such as page display or even the navigation links may be displayed by echoing its appropriate variable.

<? include("ringtail.php"); ?>
<!-- Insert whatever HTML goes here for the website itself. -->
<? echo $title; ?>
<br>
<? comic(); ?>
<!-- Insert the rest of the site HTML. -->