Jquery's recent redesign started a shit storm on their boards -- the main criticism being against the top hompage graphic which read (before it was promptly removed) "Be a javascript ROCKSTAR". The central complaint was that this portrayed a large degree of unprofessionalism, and that people trying to get their bosses or work places to adopt jquery would be put off. Which I agree with 100%. The design is pretty canned, and the illustration pretty cheezy -- but it brings up a good question, when does your open source community supported project become something that's expected to be professional. I can't believe Resig would not understand how really widespread and well used jquery is at this point, is his project no longer his really, is it directed more by the users? I remember a time when these branding, marketing and design expectations didn't exist for free/open software. Start with Tux, the linux logo -- or the Python site just a couple years ago, which was redesigned successfully. There are still plenty of older well used projects that have very bad sites, but there is a difference, these were very clearly not trying to look good, they were often merely utilitarian, whereas the jquery redesign seems trying to be clever or savvy (it's neither). And while I agree the redesign didn't look great, and the graphic unprofessional, it is notable this is now an era where free/open software are expected by its users to be shown professionally to non-technical people, and that presentation is now as important as the code itself.