How to potty train a toddler

I think there are a lot of ways to do the whole potty training thing, but here is what worked for us:

1) We talked quite a bit about potty training before we started (read books about it, watched movies about it, she would watch her friends go, etc)
2) She went to the store and picked out her own big girl panties, treat for when she "went" in the potty (she chose Skittles) and the stickers she would put on her potty chart.
3) I chose a 3 day time frame I knew we would not have to be anywhere and we could put potty training as the primary focus.
4) Day #1
-I just let her run around the house with just her t-shirt on and I let her drinks LOTS of milk, water and juice so she would be ready to go when the time came.
-I wore a timer that would go off every 15-20 minutes and then re-set itself it (it's called a MotivAider)
-When the timer went off (a vibrator only I would feel) I would say, "In 1 minute we're going to try going potty". (Lucy seems to work well with warnings of what is about to happen).
-After a minute or so I would say, "Let's go sit on the potty and you can have a Skittle".
-She'd sit on the potty. I gave her 1 Skittle for coming and sitting down and 1 Skittle if she "went" in the potty.
-If she actually "went" in the potty, she got to put a sticker of her choice on a potty chart and once a full row was complete, she got a treat (a popsicle)
-We repeated this process every 20 minutes or so for the whole first day.
5) Day #2 pretty much the same process but I pulled way back on the liquid she would drink and we tried about every 30 minutes.
6) Days #3-6 same process as above, but we tried about every hour (I use the top of the hour just to make it simple for me). We also started wearing panties and shorts. She's not as excited about the sticker chart, so I've just let that fade away, but she does still want a Skittle every time-which is fine for now.
7) We have about 1 accident (or less) a day which I think is normal. So, for what it's worth, that is what worked for us! Good luck!