I'm making progress ^^ I've download an application on my Android phone that is very good, I don't know if you have something like that but if you have you should check if you have japanese lessons on it.
I'm surprised that there aren't good english websites for courses :O It's rare that you haven't awesome websites for something. Maybe you should try this one :
http://www.learn-hiragana-katakana.com/ or this one
http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/japanese.php