A very old thread, but my daughter has just nominated online applications where the layout is all wrong. She has just completed one where the text boxes use fonts of different size even though they are side by side, her surname is centered, but her first name is left aligned - indeed it is the only left aligned box; there's no place to put some of her experience because it doesn't fit the authors thoughts on what might might appear, blah, blah, blah.   Don't assume that the first name is left aligned to make it easiest to pick out, because that's the smallest font.

It's just a complete design mess. And it's for a job in Arts [though they didn't design the form - a recruitment company did].