Where is the safest site to download mods and are they for the retail disc version as well as the downloaded version?

Kazz, a few pages back AnneG posted This Site as a good place to get mods.

And Debra posted This Link to PC Gamer's list of mods.

and have fun.

Also worth mentioning is the brand new Skryim Steam Workshop. It's brand new so I've hardly thought about it since the Creation Kit came out. I just used it today for the first time and it seemed to work just fine. People can make and upload mods to it and people can browse through those mods. If you find one you like, click the Subscribe button and the next you start the game, Steam automatically downloads and installs the mod for you. It could be worth a try for anyone leery of the Nexus site. In your Steam library on the Skyrim page, you'll see a Browse the Workshop button and it'll take you right to it. I'm thinking I might upload one of my houses to it, just to see how it works.

Thanks AnneG

Thank you very much for your answers. I have been wondering about that Nexus site. I will pass and use links given here.

Hi all!
I'm still having a problem with the Script Extender thing for SkyUI, and since I love SkyUI I really want to solve the issue. I can't figure the thing out and am ready to throw a fit!
I wish Nexus was as easy to add things to Skyrim as Curse is for WoW. L4L, do you know what to do? Adding mods is like adding add-ons to WoW. Some of them are a big help to the game. I think that the extender should be added automatically when you download SkyUI.
Any help would be appreciated.
Andrea

Andrea, do you have the Nexus Mod Manager installed?
If you do, then you can go back in and uninstall the SkyUI mod and reinstall it. The Mod Manager will put everything where it should go.
If you have the mod manager did you enable the SkyUI in it by first highlighting SkyUI and then clicking on the little icon that looks like a puzzle piece in the mods section with the green arrow pointing to the right?
If you don't have the mod manager here's the link:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/content/modmanager/
Do you have the latest version of the script extender? http://skse.silverlock.org/download/skse_1_04_10.7z

I don't know if any of this will help you, but maybe you can try these suggestions if you haven't already.
P.S After reading your post over again, it seemed to me that you don't have the extender downloaded.
Sky UI and that extender are separate from each other and you have to download each one for SkyUI to work.
OK I hope this is my last edit!
This is the page I downloaded SkyUI from and it has lots of information on the mod and how to download it. Plus if you still have problems you can contact the author of the mod from that page:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3863
Fingers crossed for you!

Thanks Debra

Andrea, I don't use mods in Skyrim so I am not a good source of info on that issue. Thank God for the members that can help.

Thanks Debra!
I have SkyUI downloaded just fine. It's just the extender that is giving me problems. Wish it went in at the same time.

Hey everyone. I was just wandering around Skyrim last night and there are always little moments that pop out that I always want to mention, but forget to. Well, it happened again this morning too, I just have to shake my head. You know the guy in Solitude who goes, "Fletching suits me" ? Everytime he says that I want desperately to reply with something snarky like, "Did I ASK you if fletching suited you?" or "Thanks for sharing that. Did you know that I prefer being a warrior to being a mage? I find that slicing up people is much more fun than just casting spells on them!" LOL!!!!

Wouldn't it be great if someone made a mod that allowed us to respond to these unasked-for comments? I would SO LOVE THAT!

Tracy, feeling silly this morning and realizing belatedly that she's half in love with Balimund! (sorry Annie--LOL)

PS Regarding Balimund.....now that I have the console codes to "unmarry", I've been tying the knot with a few other dudes just to see what it's like, and I married Balimund last night only to realize that he abandons his forge and lives in my basement, supposedly having a "shop" there. I want a mod that makes him stay where he is and do his thing, then he can come home to me after work! I actually requested this on Skyrim Nexus so we'll see if anyone takes me up on it.

After reading all the recent posts with great interest, I'm beginning to wonder how any of you ever managed to play a game before "mods" were invented !!

I agree with you, Mad. I think I'm living vicariously through reading these posts. With all those mods - how do they ever get any sleep?

The instructions say to move the SKSE .exe and .dll files into the Skyrim directory. How do I find those SKSE files in Win7? And then how do you move them?
Andrea

Tracy, sounds like he wants to be a househusband.

Andrea, you are a brave woman.

Andrea, did you get Script Extender from here?

http://skse.silverlock.org/

The files should be wherever you unpacked them to since they come in a zip file or 7z file, which is pretty much the same as a zip. If you never unpacked them, then that could be your problem. What I would do, if I were you, is just redownload it from that link. Make sure you keep your download box up after it's downloaded, then just double click it. It should pop up and then you can just unpack it all to your desktop. Then bring up your Skyrim directory and just drag and drop them to there from your desktop. And don't put them in the Data folder, where all your mods go. Put them in the folder right before that.


Edited to say: Yeah, looney, I've noticed that about these Nords. They all talk a big game but secretly they all want to be kept men.