Here's my list of friends, sites you should check out for help or activities, and my favorite content creators.
Affilates
Help and Activities
Sims
Builders - A community on Livejournal for practicing your lot
building skills. Anyone can build a nice house, you just need to
practice.
Pixel
Trade - Simmers sharing sims. To give a twist on the popular
legacy challenge, you use a founder made by someone else, then marry in
sims shared by others.
Sim
Mania - Quick, one round contests. Tired of contests where
the hosts or judges go MIA? Try Sim Mania
Simply
Home - A lot decorating challenge community. Challenges can
be from decorating one room, to decorating a themed restaurant.
WCIF
sims - A Livejournal community dedicated to helping simmers
find desired custom content. We also do weekly themed finds lists.
Wella
Creations - A Livejournal community for advertising most
types of creations.
Black Pearl Sims aka Forum Formerly Known as Reflex Sims Forum
- If you're
looking for a forum that doesn't only have the same old modeling
contests, check out this one. They have decorating and building
contests, as well as member run ones and a recoloring contest.
Favorite Creators
Adele Sims
- Great handpainted clothing
All About Style
- Great clothing in a variety of ages and themes
Around the Sims 2
- Sandy is a consistently high quality object creator, since Sims 1
Holy Simoly
- Great sets of furniture that coordinate and in a wide range of colors
Lord
Darcy @ MATY - Some of the best fixes out there. His more
slots for Maxis furniture
are essential.
Raonjena
- One of my favorite hair creators. Their orange shade is my
pick for my own hair color
Rensims - Great
hand painted bodyshop content
Rosesims -
Another of my favorite hair creators
Simbology
- Twojeffs is an awesome hacker
Simlogical
- Inge is still making her awesome hacks. Also check out her
stairs.