eddiecraig, you probably shouldn't spend time being concerned about your PageRank. Most people pay more attention to it than they should.
What you need to do is create the very best possible site you can and do it with your visitors in mind. If you do that everything else will take care of itself. You want traffic and you want to have a good place in the search engine results pages. Concentrating on PageRank isn't a guarantee towards those goals.
Learning search engine optimization (SEO) would also be helpful.
But to answer your question, here are some links that should answer it.
Increasing PR?
how can i increase the page rank of my site
How much time before you get a decent PR?
Here is a link to a thread which will show you how you can make searches and see for yourself that pages with lower PageRank often have better positions in the search results than pages which have a higher PageRank.
PageRank Search