"CastleGarden.org is an educational project of The Battery Conservancy. This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened" (http://www.castlegarden.org/)
With the budget available, i should be able to create a decent website that gathers all the information about immigration. When going through the website, one should understand the story of Nnew York until the immigrants came. I would classify each ethnic group by race, tell where they were coming from, why they came to new york, and the difficulty they encountered while they were there. It is simpler to have every group classified because it’s more understandable. I would definitly have a lot of pictures and videos because i believe that they are highly effective. I would keep the design simple but not too much, because a lot of graphics can be very tiring to the eyes. I would probably be not as fun as Barnum’s museum site, but it would be certainly very helpful in understanding the immigrants history.