This proceedings contains 80 full papers, 12 posters/demonstrations, 108 short papers, one panel, and one tutorial, all focusing on World Wide Web applications. Topics include: designing hypertext navigation tools; Web site design; distance education via the Web; instructional design; the world-wide market and censorship on the Web; customer support via the Web; VRML; tracking Web users; developing adaptive electronic textbooks on the Web; developing secure Web accessible databases; automating hypermedia course creation and maintenance; innovative resources for educational and public information; interactive justice trough the Web; 3D visualization of Web semantic content for browsing and query formation; Web authoring tools; the impact of the Web on education; multilingual font service; networked learning environments; Web conceptual space; the impact of Web publication on a child writer's development; concurrent manufacturing on the Web; browsing; virtual office hours; designing digital libraries for post-literate patrons; electronic commerce; a distance education how-to manual; media, multimedia, and language learning; managing the virtual classroom; a course in multimedia technology for non-computer science majors; full-text retrieval; collaborative learning/teaching on the Web: the web as a teaching tool; computer mediated communication; active messaging in Java; an electronic shopping agent; helping teachers use anti-virus Web sites; teaching personally sensitive material over the Internet; global distance learning and the transformation of knowledge construction; gender and the human computer user interface; school participation in the development of commercial, Web-based curriculum resources; a virtual campus on the Web; authentic activities and the Internet; a tool for creating and browsing in case libraries; providing real-time instruction on the Web; discursive networking; Web language teaching; and how to set up and maintain an image database on the Web. (DLS)