Drupal 7.x

I am new to drupal. I have made a site and front page along with several "basic pages" from within the system itself. What I can't see to figure out is this:

I click on a link on the home page, and it's linked to one of those "basic pages"

It just loads on a white drupal background.

What I want to do is have numerous pages with regions like I had on the front page. How do I go about getting all this set up?

I know this probably sounds easy to most, but it escapes me at the moment.

Dear,

I use maintenance mode  during update and similar tasks, As everyone does, I think.

I have writen a few lines of a text in my "Maintenance mode message "

I had thought, that this maintenance mode  message was shown to every visitor during all the duration of the maintenance mode .

I use the following code snippet in custom code I am developing to add new users:

I am adding a new record to the users table.

                $edit = array();
                $edit["name"] = $data->name;
                $edit["status"] = $data->status;
                $edit["mail"] = $data->mail;
                $account = new stdClass();
                $account->is_new = TRUE;
                $new_user = user_save($account, $edit, $category = 'account');

We have a module https://www.drupal.org/project/acobot

We have updated its codes for D7 and need help with the following tasks

• Create a new release for D7 (codes are ready, you just help to update the project release)
• Create update the module for D8 (based on D7 codes) and publish a formal release for D8.
• Removing "This project is not covered by Drupal's security advisory policy."

Please contact  me if you're interested: vic at acobot dot com. Thank you!

In the Entity Reference field, two of the widget options are "Autocomplete (Tags style)" and "Autocomplete". 

Can anybody explain the difference between them? 

As far as I can tell, they both work exactly the same. Granted, in my test, I only have 5 items to reference, which may explain why I'm not seeing any difference. 

Is there any value in using one over the other? FYI, I'm referencing users. 

Thanks as always. 

Tokens are becoming a challenge for me. I want to add a field to a custom content type showing the Node ID. But none of the node tokens, including [node:nid], appear on the list of available tokens. 

I understand that some tokens are not always available, but it seems to me that Node ID would be universal. 

Am I missing some simple configuration? I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks so much.