A good place to start is the Top Files section, which can be found in the sub-menu of the Files category. The best place to find mods is the Skyrim Nexus website which can be found on Nexus. You become more familiar with how mods work by installing them manually.You can pick and choose what you use from mods, installing just the parts you want to use.You can install parts of mods rather than the entire mod (you may for example, really like the iron armour from an armour replacement mod but not like the rest).Manually installing mods gives you a number of advantages over using Mod Management tools: