Toilet Training

This would have to be one of the hardest things to teach a child, close to impossible I reckon.
There are so many different methods of toilet training out there, that a first time parent like me has no option but to do a lot more research as to what works best.
My findings come from probably the best source possible, other parents.
After reading forum after forum after forum about what parents have tried and what parents have succeeded with, we decided to try toilet training with our daughter, after lots of puddles here and there, we decided that nothing we did worked. Thinking about the failure of toilet training our daughter, I started wondering if there was a reason why it didn't work, a whole new form of investigation got under way.
The first thing to do was to find out what my daughter was thinking, e.g. scared of the toilet (too high, too noisy or whatever else it may be), there was no apparent fear of anything to do with the toilet itself.
So, back to reading I went, and this is when I seemed to find a pattern with what most parents were saying. "We tried for so long to get our daughter/son to go to the toilet, but he/she didn't want anything to do with it". "Then one day out of the blue, the nappy/diaper/underwear came off and he/she went to the toilet all by him/her self".
This sentence and those like it, gave me an idea. The idea was to put just underwear on my daughter and watch her for a sign that she needed to go to the toilet. For two hours I sat down watching every move and every facial expression, then it happened, she did a wee, there was no indication what so ever from her, that she knew what was about to happen. As an adult we get the sensation of needing to go to the toilet, then we act upon that sensation, by going to the toilet.
So, it seems that for a child to be toilet trained they MUST first have that sensation of what is about to happen, without that sensation, there is no point in even trying to toilet train kids.
From what I've read, the child will tell you, or let you know that their ready for toilet training.
My daughter (2 years 3 months) hasn't shown any signs as yet, but if my research is right, she will let us know.