diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 67530e3..fee661b 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 ^\.travis\.yml$
 LICENSE\.md
 ^appveyor\.yml$
+^tic\.R$
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2d9d2d5..7bb24e2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
 .Ruserdata
 .DS_Store
 ._*
+docs/
diff --git a/tic.R b/tic.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..46ec120
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tic.R
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# installs dependencies, runs R CMD check, runs covr::codecov()
+do_package_checks()
+
+if (ci_on_travis() && ci_has_env("BUILD_PKGDOWN")) {
+  # creates pkgdown site and pushes to gh-pages branch
+  # only for the runner with the "BUILD_PKGDOWN" env var set
+  do_pkgdown()
+}