The BBC has plenty of developers to work on it. We have Wayne (and maybe a few others), his free time and a quirky content management system that seriously discourages modification of it's code.
Overall I'd say the site is cracking, moreso considering the tools.
@Wayne
I have written some image scaling code for php that might be useful (it also intelligently caches the resampled image on the server). It's yours if you want it.
