Hmm... tough situation. How much content do they want above the fold? It sounds like too much, regardless -- like Steve Krug says, "Omit needless words". Get rid of all that "Welcome to" BS, verbose instructions and the like. After you've cut things down, do it again. It's a fact that users just don't read fully web pages unless they're articles and even then, users usually scan. If there's a lot of content that the client absolutely feels has to be on the page, there's nothing wrong with prioritizing and compartmentalizing the content and then moving the less important stuff below the fold.
If you're going to fight them, you might want to create a to-scale mock up of the page at different screen resolutions (paper or HTML), show it to the client and then run the client through some basic usability testing -- come up with a few tasks based on the content and time how quickly they're able to figure things out. I'm pretty sure they'll see how difficult it is to process the amount of content they want on the page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26943 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
