[GeoNode-users] problem with sld

[Ivan Marchesini]

Dear geonode users and developer

I apologize if this is a well known problem but browsing on Internet 
(including the mailing list) I wasn't able to find a good solution

I have recently installed geonode2.6 (ubuntu, ppa) for a project where 
multiple and not skilled users will be involved.

I have tried to do a couple of things:

1) I uploaded a shapefile (separate files) together with a sld file 
exported from qgis. It happened to me that (i) the corresponding sld 
file created in geoserver is very different from the  original one 
(tipicaly the colors are lost)  and (ii) since the <Title> tag is not 
present geonode is only able to show me a style called "none"

2) I uploaded a shapefile (separate files) together with a sld file 
exported from udig. It happened to me that (ii) since the <Title> tag is 
not present geonode is only able to show me a style called "none"

is there a way for creating a well formatted sld file for 
geoserver/geonode using some desktop GIS or some other tools with a GUI?
It is very important to me since I can't ask the other colleagues to 
edit directly the xml files..  they will be too much scared by that!!

thank you for your answers

Ivan