At the moment i am System Administrator if Small-Medium size business and want to look into Web design.. nothing to big, just basic static website learning Adobe sweats etc.. want to be able to do music, video, pictures etc.

Do you guys recommend me a good place in brissy to learn...

I found these guys, but just wondering your recommendations... when done i then want to learn how to use joomla
http://www.dynamicwebtraining.com.au/courses/web-training.htm

Why not start by looking at tutorials online? Use the internet to your advantage.

courses are a waste of time, just start building some sites and read around the web.

agree ++, just need to have the motivation.

It is rare that someone who gets hired as a web developer where I work has ever done any courses learning how to make websites. We have some developers who have been here a year and can't get their mind around CSS, PHP, etc...
I think you will be fine mate.

Don't bother with courses, get the tools and just mess around with them, especialy photoshop.

My mate had a very good idea for a web application but no 1337 sk1llz. I had him over at my joint every night for a week and by the end of that he had his head wrapped around XHTML, PHP, JavaScript and MySQL and was developing practical applications.

Based on that experience I think the biggest hurdles for programming newbs is simply setting up a reasonable development environment. They might have some ideas about what they want in a web-app but can't answer programming questions like:

1. Which technology should I use? (Ruby, PHP, Perl, Java)
2. Which IDE should I use? (Text editor, Aptana, DreamWeaver)
3. How do I debug adequately? (Firebug, IDE-plugins)
4. What is server-side and what is client-side? (JavaScript, Jaxer, server-side scripting)
and so on...

My hot-tip based on that recent experience is to go for an absolutely free open-source setup based on packages that are integrated well. If you want my advice use the following:

XAMPP (Apache, PHP, MySQL)
Aptana with PHP plug-in installed
Firefox with Firebug for HTML/JavaScript inspection and debugging

Get all that running nicely, and then hit up this site and get programming you lazy mofo.

I have ideas and skills but am too lazy to do it myself. Might hit up some cheap Indian labour.

Might hit up some cheap Indian labour.

Go to the UQ St Lucia campus and check out the labs in the GP South building.

templatemonster.com

good place to to show you that whatever you design will be totally s***

also i think you can get these for free if you know the right people dot dot dot

ps by people i mean utorrent

Haha I use template monster as well. I've stopped buying them, since I can just redraw what I see in the picture in about an hour, except exactly how I want it. But it's a great way to show clients roughly what they'll get before you put effort in.

Whats the reason you are doing it, if its for the company tell them to gtfo and hire a webdesigner.

the reason is alot of people ask me to do websites... i never been a person who likes programming so i stayed away... but would like to make some really simple pretty websites..

also my boss doesnt want me to do the design of it.. but wants me to setup joomla

Some guys' web dev resume just got chucked in the bin here because in his interests he listed 'gaming'. The guy who listed 'rugby' got an interview.
Just a tip.

Some guys' web dev resume just got chucked in the bin here because in his interests he listed 'gaming'. The guy who listed 'rugby' got an interview.
Just a tip.

Just removed "pwning at L4D" from my list of interests in my CV. Thanks for the hot tip.

Just removed "pwning at L4D" from my list of interests in my CV. Thanks for the hot tip.

LoL...

mine used to have "motorsport" in my hobbies, got me in too much hot water
the older guys who were normally hiring me were all v8 freaks and they'd say oh yeah, 4 cyl buzz box huh

and then i'd tell them my 4cyl has more torque and more power than their v8, they'd get cut etc