In the past few years I’ve done a fair amount of reading on the subject and can recommend the following two sites. I’m following the Ultimate Buy and Hold Strategy (although light on bonds) with the hopes that I will live through retirement with just the state teachers’ retirement my wife and I will receive. The funds in the Buy and Hold will be used to help kids buy houses and/or start businesses or pass on when we do.
http://www.fundadvice.com/FEhtml/BHStrategies/0108/0108a.html
http://zenmillionaire.com/ (particularly Lazy Investing)
Also just finished reading *The Four Pillars of Investing* that I also recommend. Don’t hire an advisor. The time spent learning how to invest wisely will likely return more than any other activity you could choose.