30 Essential Controls for Web Interfaces

I realize that I've been posting a lot on user interface design for Web applications, but it seems that there are more and more excellent resources becoming freely available on this front every day. What's even better is that many of these resources provide simple, clear examples for best practices.

Thanks to the good folks at Ajaxian, I came across 30 Essential Controls, a page which lists frequently used Web UI controls (ie; multi-select box, rich text editor, autosuggest, etc.) and which RIA frameworks use them. So if you're prototyping a particular UI and want to know if the framework you're considering (because you are using frameworks and not trying to reinvent the wheel, right?) supports that type of control. There are handy links to many specific control implementations inline, so it's pretty easy to find some of these controls while others you'll have to go searching for.

The parent site for this page, which is for the book "Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions" has quite a few good resources itself, including a blog from the authors. If you haven't seen Bill Scott's presentation on Designing Web Interfaces on Slideshare, it's definitely worth checking out and making it through the 300+ slides. He just did a webcast on O'Reilly and should be posting the audio from the session soon. Take a look at the "Explore the Book" page as well, as it summarizes most of the content of the book into an easily usable page.

It looks like I'll be picking up their book shortly.