Web | Josh May

Web Development

My web work tends to sit somewhere between design, publishing, product, and operations. I’ve built and managed digital platforms, event experiences, content systems, speaker promotion tools, and small-site experiments, usually around real organizational workflows rather than decorative web presence alone.

The common thread is utility: helping people find the right content, participate in an event, promote a program, access a resource, or understand what an organization is trying to make possible. In that sense, the website is rarely just the surface. It is the visible part of a larger system.

Platform and Content Systems

Web platforms and content workflows connected to live events, scientific communities, marketing operations, and reusable digital assets.

Virtual Keystone Symposia

Virtual Keystone Symposia began as a digital content initiative for highlighting global scientists and distributing free long- and short-form scientific video. When COVID-19 closures cancelled the 2020 in-person conference season, the platform expanded into a full virtual meeting environment for scientific conferences. The system supported multi-day programming, attendee networking, dynamic poster sessions, paid registration access, and free on-demand content, turning a media initiative into a working digital conference platform for a global scientific audience.

Virtual Keystone Symposia

AudienceAbout 40,000 users
Use CaseVirtual scientific meetings and on-demand content
WorkPlatform operations, content systems, technical production

Digital Toolkit

The Digital Toolkit helped Keystone Symposia speakers and organizers promote niche scientific meetings to their professional networks. Each toolkit packaged downloadable mixed-media assets, multiple format options, and pre-written social copy so busy scientists could share meeting information without having to become marketers overnight. The project later evolved into a database-driven HubDB workflow, making the kits easier to scale, update, and reuse across programs.

HubDB Toolkit Example

ClientKeystone Symposia
FormatDownloadable mixed-media kits
SystemHubDB-driven content workflow

Archived Web Concepts

Older small-site concepts and experiments preserved as a visual archive of earlier web work.

Archived Web Concepts

These projects ranged from local business sites and restaurant concepts to portfolio and blog-style builds, often with an emphasis on lightweight design, search visibility, and practical publishing needs.

Tigerlily, for example, was a mom-and-pop Asian-fusion restaurant site that was heavily SEO’d and regularly outranked larger local competitors. The others are less about current functionality and more about the evolution of a web practice built through real, scrappy, small-scale projects.

Open Archive Viewer

TypeArchived concept work
StatusVisual archive for now