Hi,
No, it doesn't require any coding, Quickstart installation is very easy, did you follow this tutorial?
http://www.gavick.com/documentation/wor ... tallation/Remember, that you can't install a quickstart on existing wordpress intallation - quickstart is a wordpress 3.8 instance with our theme, content and configuration included.
Counter configuration is described here:
http://demo.gavick.com/wordpress/fest/?p=918you have to change contend of text widget to change the configuration.