# No splash page?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/no-splash-page/166706
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 21, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/no-splash-page/166706 "2005-10-21T23:08:45Z")
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### Author: ![frizzle\_fry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/46a35a/32.png) [@frizzle\_fry](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/frizzle_fry)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/no-splash-page/166706/1 "2005-10-21T23:08:45Z")

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i usually use a splash page but as a request im just embedding the swf into the index.html, but the swf isn’t playing when the site is loaded.  
do i have to have a splash page for the index.html file?