user32014: This may seem as a pointless question to many, but I'm new here and just wanted to know a bit more about the Stack Exchange websites. While visiting various other Stack Exchange websites, I noticed that the top of the home page over there looks far more attractive than the one on this website :




But when you look at this website:

There is an obvious difference. Why is this site not made as attractive as the other sites. I'm guessing its probably because of the lack of popularity, but come on. We're pretty popular (We as in this community). Also, Who decides this stuff ? I was curious about that. And if this question is irrelevant to this website or cannot be answered, just let me know and I'll delete it myself.

user1908: All Stack Exchange sites start out in "beta" and look the way ours does. After a site achieves sufficient activity, it "graduates". It used to be that graduation was always accompanied by snazzy designs like the ones you've posted, but that changed about two years ago so that getting a snazzy design comes some time after graduation.
Our site has graduated (so, for example, you don't see "beta" in our site header like you would on, say, Alcohol.SE), but does not yet have a design. Creating a new design for a Stack Exchange site is a labor-intensive process, and Stack Overflow (the company) has only limited resources. We are somewhere in the queue for getting a design - it'll happen eventually. 
We are a reasonably popular site compared to Stack Exchange as a whole, but if you go to http://stackexchange.com/sites and sort by whatever metric you'd like, you'll see that there are sites that are more active than us that also don't have a design (you can tell because their icons are generic blue speech bubbles). 

32014: <p>This may seem as a pointless question to many, but I'm new here and just wanted to know a bit more about the Stack Exchange websites. While visiting various other Stack Exchange websites, I noticed that the top of the home page over there looks far more attractive than the one on this website :</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/sYFav.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/sYFav.jpg" alt="SF&amp;F's design" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JdKDv.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JdKDv.jpg" alt="Chemistry's design" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HcmRb.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HcmRb.jpg" alt="Puzzling's design" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZEU1Z.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZEU1Z.jpg" alt="Physics's design" /></a></p>
<h1>But when you look at this website:</h1>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bRYOT.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bRYOT.jpg" alt="Anime's design" /></a></p>
<p>There is an obvious difference. Why is this site not made as attractive as the other sites. I'm guessing its probably because of the lack of popularity, but come on. We're pretty popular (We as in this community). Also, Who decides this stuff ? I was curious about that. And if this question is irrelevant to this website or cannot be answered, just let me know and I'll delete it myself.</p>
 1908: <p>All Stack Exchange sites start out <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/whats-beta">in "beta"</a> and look the way ours does. After a site achieves sufficient activity, it <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/257614/">"graduates"</a>. It used to be that graduation was always accompanied by snazzy designs like the ones you've posted, but <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/263905/">that changed about two years ago</a> so that getting a snazzy design comes some time after graduation.</p>

<p>Our site has graduated (so, for example, you don't see "beta" in our site header like you would on, say, <a href="https://alcohol.stackexchange.com/">Alcohol.SE</a>), but does not yet have a design. Creating a new design for a Stack Exchange site is a labor-intensive process, and Stack Overflow (the company) has only limited resources. We are somewhere in the queue for getting a design - it'll happen eventually. </p>

<p>We are a reasonably popular site compared to Stack Exchange as a whole, but if you go to <a href="http://stackexchange.com/sites">http://stackexchange.com/sites</a> and sort by whatever metric you'd like, you'll see that there are sites that are more active than us that also don't have a design (you can tell because their icons are generic blue speech bubbles). </p>
