Commercial site critique and question

Thanks to everyone who reviewed the Endeavor site.  I have another site
that'll be made public soon.  It's very much along the same vein.

http://www.insightatlast.com/main.html

You might notice that there are two companies represented at this site
(Insight Info., Inc. and Atlast Solutions, Inc.), I'm really only curious
about the one referenced above (mine).  Once again, I'm dealing with a
person who owns the company and has requested several "features" for the
site that I felt compromised the over-all attractiveness of it.

This leads me to a question for the commercial developers amongst you:

I'm only starting out but I'm finding it difficult, at times, to balance
the "customer/employer" wishes with my own artistic (??) ideas.  When the
person employing you asks for something that you feel compromises the site
or its content, how do you deal with this.  Being more of a programmer than
an artist, I tend to lean toward the philosophy that the customer/employer
is always right.  However, this takes its toll on my ability to use the work
as a reference base.

Thanks in advance for your reviews and comments, I hope to return the favor
soon.

~chris

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