Importance of page rank

[Snot]

I guess its all in the look of my page. I am really good with Dreamweaver so I can make really cool looking front pages. I don't know jack about php so getting the forums to look cool is imposable unless I find someone willing to do the phpbb style code or whatever.

Is it better to have my forums on the front page www.drysnot.com or is it better to have my forums on a sub level www.drysnot.com/forum

I know that page rank applies to the first page then once the page rank for that page gets high enough the bots dig a little deeper and find the forums but if my front page has very little text and a ton of images that will look cool to a user but be crap for a bot.

Whats better in my case front page or just forums?

Thanks

[gbonnet]

Hi,

Pagerank is not related to your page content but is a result of the "net linking" of a page. Basically, it comes from other sites.

Good content is the 1st thing you need to focus on for SEO though, and that will be achieved with having an active forum.

If you want to get listed better in search engine, you'll need to get other sites linking to your site (try to get direct links to various pages of your site, not only the home page). If you need a bit of help for that, take a look at this thread : http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=224828

As soon as the bots know about your site, they will browse all the pages they can find (ie: which are linked to internally), not only the home page, so don't worry about that.

HTH
G.