I think if you need to shrink things to fit it above the fold, it's time to reconsider what you're putting there. I've never had trouble fitting everything important comfortably above the fold, but I'm only working with my own projects.
I absolutely agree. I also agree with the theory that you should teach, coach and influence your clients with what your team has learned over the course of your career.
The clients I mentioned are organizations with thousands of employees, and (at the very least) dozens of very large departments. Their decisions are always made by committees made up by representatives from these departments, and they all want equal or more attention. You just can't teach clients like that and stay within a tasteful budget. All you can do is creatively mitigate.
It's not all bad, though. It's just another puzzle to solve, only this time the solution isn't in code.
(Sorry for straying so far off topic from the original article)
