by Farhan Karmali.
Hi Maria,
You can add images to the button using css , if you want to customize your theme , you can add it to your styles.css
{background-image:url([[pix:theme|path/to/image/imagename]]);}
See this for more detailshttp://docs.moodle.org/dev/Using_images_in_a_theme#Adding_new_images_to_your_theme
If your theme's name is abc for example . You can put the image in pix folder within abc and then the css would be