Yahoo isn’t “feeling pretty” so they are getting a makeover. According to Yahoo begins radical home page overhaul, Yahoo is feeling pressure to make good on year old promises to make changes.

“We are going to put what matters to you most at your fingertips,” said Tapan Bhat, the senior vice president in charge of “front doors”–the main destinations at Yahoo, including Yahoo.com, MyYahoo and the Yahoo toolbar.

If you want to take a peek at what the new design could look like head on over to Yahoo begins radical home page overhaul on Reuters.com and there’s an image at the top of the article. Also from the reuters.com article:

The real test of the success or failure of the Yahoo home page redesign will only come when the company opens up Yahoo.com to let independent developers create their own applications to work on Yahoo.com, Dangson said. [That's] where Google, Facebook and MySpace all are further along, she said.

So, after Yahoo gets its makeover, we’ll see if indedpendent developers become interested enough to “join the party” and make cool new Yahoo apps to see if they can catch up with some of the others in terms of custom 3d party apps.