Objective: Wrap <span> tags around first word of blog title.
Status: Successfully hard coded header.php so that it wraps <span> tags around first word and assigning the string to $new_title.
Problem: How to replace bloginfo('name') with $new_title.
Is there a better way to approach this like creating a function that allows the blog title with HTML tags? Is there a trick in using HTML tags with the blog title?
Where to go from here?