There is an excellent set of advice for those new to modding: see the "Fallout: New Vegas Mod Troubleshooting" sub-forum Fallout New Vegas Beginners Guide to modding thread ("sticky" at the top) which covers the essential tools you will need, such as LOOT for sorting your "load order" ...
Modified Stewie’s save character selector to better integrate it with the anti-redundancy changes in VUI+. While this change removes visibility of the "Characters" string from the save list when using a controller, the latest scrollbar fixes will suffice to allow the slider to tell the user ...