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A lot of people post questions like this where it takes a lot less time to go to google and search. I use google a lot, it's a great tool if you know how to use it properly.
Say I wanted to learn how to make webpages using HTML. Searching for "How to make HTML webpages using HTML" may work but it a little too long and search engines are dumb - they don't actually read what you typed as a sentance, it looks for keywords. A statement such as "Learn HTML" or "HTML Tutorials" would find more relivent information.
Same with anything "How to make Renegade maps" try "Renegade tutorials" or "Renegade editing".
A feature of google is the URL search. Say i wanted to find things related to n00bstories but only for n00bstories.com I would do a search for "inurl:n00bstories.com"
Another one is the "exact phrase" search, you simply put speech marks around your search term. For example if i searched for "sims" as in the game, it may find lots of un-related things such as flight sims. If i searched for ""The Sims"" it would find only pages that contain "the Sims" and not "sims" see what I mean?
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