How to achieve

[talytech]

Can someone explain to me how the effects in the following template is achieved. I would like to mimic that for my site. I'm able to mimic the objects but I don't know where to start with the programming.

http://www.swishzone.com/products/sites/site216/index.html

[Stoke Laurie]

This free template of mine uses the sliding page principle
http://www.thewebshopfactory.co.uk/blog/?p=35