VERY GOOD ADVICE! I had a fansite dedicated to my favorite author a couple of years ago. The homepage had less than a hundred words on it total as it was mostly the guidepost to other pages and content. I did a bit of basic SEO with the keywords and it stayed a PR3.

Another site I ran had over a thousand words on the homepage but was of a more general nature and usually only ranked a PR1.

"They" say Metatags and keywords are not important anymore but I have observational evidence to the contrary.

Write your article with a specific focus and tune it with a bit of SEO and it will do good for you. 100 words or a 1000, whatever it takes to make your subject clear.

Luck and L8r