Modding Guides
About Modding Guides
There are many guides to modding Skyrim and not all of them are valuable resources. Especially for newcomers to the hobby, it is unfortunately difficult to recognise quality, and scammers prey upon the inexperienced by selling (often literally) promises that are impossible to keep.
Any guide that does not include file modification and custom patches can be disregarded. These steps are essential to building a stable, high quality setup. The same is true if specific installation as well as mod and load order instructions are missing.
A collection of links to mods is not a guide.
Recommended Guides
Since the advent of Wabbajack, the popularity of traditional modding guides has receded. However, there are still multiple guides of high quality available which you can follow.
My own manual guide, The Phoenix Flavour is discontinued and outdated.