» Fri May 13, 2011 5:25 pm
The first thing you need to do is look through http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Main_Page (you may want to bookmark it). You may also want to join http://www.invision.tesalliance.org/forums/, the first (and, to my knowledge, only modding school). There are a number of modding courses available there.
As for finding things in the CS:
Things in the CS are set up in categories. Most categories have subcategories. If you want weapons, expand the Items category. Inside it, you'll find subcategories for Ammo, Apparatus (Alchemy equipment), Armor, Book, Clothing, Ingredient, Key, leveled Item, Misc. Item, Sigil Stone, Soul Gem and Weapon. If you want to make an interior cell, you'll find most of what you need under Static. You'll also need doors, which you can find under Door and you might want to use switches, which would be found under Activators. You just need to look around the CS for a while and get a feel for the setup.