If you are running a website or blog based on WordPress or any other blog-publishing platform, you do not have to worry about making your own RSS feds. In fact, you would probably have thinking about ever because the built-in function in this software does all the "dirty" job. As simple as providing a link to the different feeds available, and the script generates "on the fly" feeds from different content areas.
Similarly, forum software and content management systems (CMS) have integrated functions that can be easily enabled, or come with layouts ready to provide surfers with the relevant links they need to stay up to date with the new content published.
However, static websites may not have an RSS maker, regardless the programming language used for coding the core layout. On the other hand, many webmasters believe that feeds can only be displayed on websites using PHP, ASP, Ruby on Rails, or Python, but no in simple HTML sites.
The good news is that you can make your own RSS feeds for either dynamic or static websites that lack of such functionality. These feeds are XML files that can be created online through websites that provide such service, or using an XML editor or RSS creation software that run in Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.
There are many freeware, shareware and trial programs to choose from. Some are very basic editors; some others are full-featured suites that do not only make the feeds, but generate the source code to deliver this content or embed it. Even though, there are also websites that provide this type of service, useful when someone has an XML file to syndicate, but not the knowledge to implement the syndication.
Static websites based on HTML benefit greatly with this way to syndicate feeds, since RSS is usually delivered or embedded by means of a JavaScript snippet. Nonetheless, a website that uses PHP or other programming language can benefit from integrating the code to generate automatically those feeds, a time-saving solution that requires basic knowledge to get it done.
Syndication is the best way to propagate your content throughout the Internet, the best way to drive visitors to your website, and the best way to get other websites linking to yours, and therefore learning the basics to code your own feeds or experimenting with an RSS editor to create them, will eventually pay off the hard time.
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