Ecard suggested stage size?

I'm trying to make ecards and I'm new to Flash so please bear with me. Does anybody have a suggested size for the stage? Which in my case is really the card viewing size.
I have one that's almost done and the stage size is 700x800 px. But I'm starting to worry if that's going to look too small? To change it, will be a lot of work - there's animation, imported Jpegs etc. As far as I can tell, in order for it to look correct in larger dimensions I will need to basically create it again from the ground up. So, I'd really like to get an idea of what the optimal pixel dimensions would be for ecards to run on multiple platforms.
Any thoughts, anyone? Please help. I really want to do this and I don't feel like I can move ahead until I get the viewing size correct. I don't even mind redoing the card. I just want my future cards to be the correct size. I don't want to have to come back and redo them all.
By the way, the cards are being made in Flash. The site itself will be created in DreamWeaver.
Thanks so much,
Sarah

Sorry Ned, I've never done this. I took a look at the code and I couldn't find any reference to the dimensions of the movie. The closest thing I could find was this -
<object class="fla-replace" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://ak.jacquielawson.com/product/cardswf/3277201.swf?cont=1&hdn=0&hdr=Happy Valentine's Day!&pv=3277201&code=" wmode="transparent" width="100%" height="100%" bgcolor="#A87077" allowscriptaccess="always">
I'm probably looking at the wrong thing. When the code comes up, how do I know which part of it refers to the ecard dimensions and not the rest of the web page? Most of it's pretty intuitive but I'm not familiar with code and this part is the only thing that seemed to address the dimensions of the card itself.
Sarah

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>I have been poking around and not finding any info on
this.
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> What I want to do is change the height of the STAGE (not
a MovieClip)
> based on which view I'm showing the customer at a
particular time.
>
> For instance...
>
> I may have a thumbnail and a detail view for a product.
I don't need a lot
> of screen real estate to show the thumbnail view, but
I'd like to make the
> swf taller if the user switches to the detail view.
>
> I don't simply want to make the swf taller by default
because I'll have a
> ton of unused whitespace in thumbnail view, which will
look stupid.
>
> I shouldn't have a problem with the JavaScript to change
the height
> properties in the HTML tags for the Flash object, but
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> if/how to do the other part in Flash. Everything I've
seen so far has
> been read-only properties.
>
> Thanks,
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> Chris.
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ooba wrote:
> This may seem like a dumb question, but if I set the
stage to 640x480, then
> shouldn't the testing of the flash piece be displayed at
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> almost a different size every time I test the file
(ctrl+enter).
>
> What gives?
> Yes I have some clips that are larger in width than the
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> that cause the player to be opened larger than the
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>
> Thanks for the input.
>

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