Don’t have an RSS feed? Hate coding?  Get an RSS feed in minutes using these great (free!) tools.

Maybe you’ve read a little about RSS, and you know you can do awesome things with it. Or maybe you’re just getting started. Either way, here’s how to get yourself an RSS feed in no time without having to worry about coding it yourself. Depending on how comfortable you feel getting into the technical side of your feed, there are easy, medium, and hard options.

Option #1 : Word Press. Easy.

Step 1: Set yourself up with a WordPress  account.

If you don’t already have one, follow the link below to sign up.

Step 2: Create content.

WordPress is designed to help you organize your content. It’ll also automatically make your content RSS-ready so you don’t have to worry about any pesky hand-coding. Below are some sample blog posts created in WordPress.

Step 3: Grab your feed!

Want to see what your feed looks like? Just head over to http://[your WordPress URL here]/feed and take a look! You should see something that looks like this:

Scroll down to see what happens to this content when you build an app with us!

Option #2: Dapp Factory. Medium Difficulty.

If you already have a website, or you’re not interested in putting up new content on WordPress, Dapper’s Dapp Factory might be for you. This will take a little time, but it’s all point-and-click, and there are demos to guide you through every step, so it’s not too scary. If you’re running Firefox 2.0 or higher, you can even download their widget, DapperFox, which sits in your address bar and looks like this:

Dapper basically allows you to “build” a customized RSS feed out of the content on your website, specifying what information to pull (like articles, titles, dates, and times), and lets you pick what to call these elements.The first step is to specify what kind of feed you want to create, and where the content is coming from.

Next, choose  pages with the content you’re after.

Then click within each page to select the content you want your RSS feed to pull– like text, titles, dates, and times.

After previewing, organizing, and naming  your feed, you’ll see your feed URL in a little box like this:

And that’s all there is to it!

Option #3: FEED43 (Feed for Free). Hard.

With Feed43, you pick a site, it’s readied for RSS (with the coding displayed right in front of you), you define parameters, and the RSS feed and corresponding URL are generated automatically. It’s a good way to get a very focused, specific feed that pulls only the data you’re interested in. And, it doesn’t require you to sign up. But setting parameters can be tricky, so it’s not recommended for people who are averse to coding.

If you’re interested in other RSS feed creators, you can also check out this article from Profy.com that lists  super-simple ones to pull generalized feeds from basic sites, as well as more complicated ones for specific, custom-designed feeds.

If you are going to be doing any formatting by hand, be sure to read up on how to format your feed for PointAbout.

IMPORTANT: Once you have an RSS feed, be sure to validate it here .

Here’s where PointAbout comes in.

We take your RSS feed and use it to pull relevant, functional content from your site. In seconds, the data from your RSS feed gets plugged into an app so that people can browse your content on the go. You could have an iPhone-ready application in 27 seconds using AppMakr. The basic app you can create on your own will look clean, but straightforward. If you want it to look snazzier or “feel” more like your brand or company, talk to us about customizing it!

And here’s the basic app you can make using AppMakr when you pull an RSS feed from content you’ve already created (or are continuing to update), like a WordPress blog.