TENACITY is a webcomic display program written in PHP. It doesn't use MySQL, it doesn't have a web-based UI, and its features are limited to "show comics" and "show a text file near comics." It's intended to replace a static HTML site, no more, no less. If you don't have at least a basic grasp of writing HTML and using FTP, you're not going to like TENACITY, because it's not for you.
Full disclosure, I'm just some guy. I don't have a lot of experience with large-scale software projects, and my comics aren't popular enough to really stress-test TENACITY. So while I'm pretty sure it will scale up to a really popular site without any issues, I haven't verified it.
- Lightweight - TENACITY is extremely low-impact. The entire thing is less than 20kb and has only the basics for navigation and comic display. It's perfect for cartoonists on cheap webservers.
- Simple - On most webservers, the comic is updated by uploading the image file. If the comic has a commentary or blog associated with it, that's just one more file to upload.
- Compatibility - TENACITY has been tested to work without any problems on PHP 4 and 5. It doesn't require anything but PHP to run, and should work flawlessly on most webservers.
- Creative control - Ever try editing a Wordpress theme? It's like pulling teeth. TENACITY styles are normal HTML files with some simple, easy to use PHP functions for inserting the comic and navigation. If you can write HTML, you can make a custom style for TENACITY trivially. The entire site design is up to you.
- Documentation - Anyone who's tried to use the AutoKeen system on Comic Genesis knows how valuable it is to have all those tags documented. The TENACITY readme file has a complete glossary of the functions you need to know for writing styles, with examples, as well as several fully functional themes, because you can never have too many examples.
- Price - TENACITY is released for free under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3.0 license. This means you can use it, modify it, and redistribute it, so long as you don't try to sell it, give credit where credit is due, and use a similarly open license.
I have a demo of TENACITY, basically how it comes "out of the box," set up that you can play around with: TENACITY demo
Or, if you don't mind being forced to look at my comics (at least the demo doesn't subject you to my writing), you can check out Damaged by Design or Perfectly Safe, both of which run on TENACITY. (DbD and PFS are intended for mature readers, so don't look if you get offended at R-rated movies and the like.)
If for some reason your operating system can't open a ZIP file, I recommend 7-Zip.
Old versions:
Download TENACITY v3.50
(See the readme file for a changelog.)