How did they do this?

It`s a pro theme

@voodazzard

The content is just posts. What you could do is create a category called Blog or whatever your client is needing in the slideshow. And then on your home page (which I strongly suggest should be index.php if your using WordPress as a CMS) add this code:

<?php $blog_query = new WP_Query('category_name=blog&posts_per_page=3');
while ($blog_query->have_posts()) : $blog_query->the_post();?>

<li <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

<h2><span><?php the_time('d/m/Y'); ?></span> <strong class="<?php //EIP_title(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></strong></a></h2>

<?php the_excerpt() ?>

</li><!--post-->

<?php endwhile; ?>

Now what this does is create a nice clean loop that will spit out 3 posts from your category Blog. It should be fairly simple to edit to your needs. I’ve wrapped it inside a list item, so you should be able to use this inside a nice jQuery slideshow.

@voodazzed

If it’s a slideshow then you don’t need to resize them you should be able to have a set size for the image. Alternatively you could try out http://code.google.com/p/timthumb/ which all you know is add to your theme folder and then link your images with it very simple.